Chapter 497: Virtual Operator License! 1 million a day, 6 million in two days worldwide! Car manufacturing?
Luzhou, Huaihai Road Pedestrian Street.
The entrance of Orange Smart Life Center was bustling with people. The number of fans queuing to buy the phone was twice that of the customers at Fang Yan Roasted Pork Trotters across the street. From a distance, there were as many as three or four hundred people.
Store manager Yang Xu leaned forward to take a look outside, estimated the number of people, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Unlike the micro-stores in third- and fourth-tier cities and rural areas, the direct-operated store he is in charge of has an area of 410 square meters and is called an image store or a large direct-operated store within the group.
The store has a total of 200 Yaocheng X2, 400 Orange C4 and 800 Qingcheng D2S in stock, hoping to meet the needs of offline users in the first two days.
At this time, there was not even one machine in stock at the central warehouse in Luzhou, and all of them were transferred to Kuaipao's forward warehouse or Orange Technology's direct stores.
After selling this batch, you have to wait two more days to get the second batch of goods.
Zhou Shouzhi, Cao Dahua and the channel department, product planning department, and production and manufacturing department all underestimated users' enthusiasm for purchasing Orange's new mobile phones.
The sales volume of 2.227 million units on the first day stunned everyone.
At this moment, the factories in Shenzhen and Luzhou have reached full production capacity.
The production line runs 24 hours a day, and the maximum overtime hours on working days are increased to 6 hours for the first time.
The front-line operators were not angry but happy. After all, if they worked overtime for two more hours a day, they could earn an extra 75 yuan in overtime pay, which was 375 yuan a week.
No one would think that they have too much money.
The workers hope that Orange phones can sell 5 million or 10 million units a day so that they can work 16 or 18 hours a day.
But they also know that the factory has extremely strict control over overtime hours. Within a week, after the new batch of employees are trained and hired, the overtime hours will be reduced to the previous level.
Chen Yansen was sitting in the Kawanka milk tea shop, holding a cup of lemon tea in his left hand and a pig's trotter in his right hand. He was eating with relish while looking at the direct-operated store opposite.
He wore a baseball cap on his head, a pair of wide-brimmed sunglasses on his face, a short-sleeved T-shirt on his upper body, and light gray casual pants on his lower body. Compared with his usual suit and tie appearance, he was completely different.
Ye Qiuping, who was standing by, bit the straw and took two deep sips of milk tea. She didn't know what she was thinking about, but a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of her mouth.
She secretly looked at Chen Yansen, her eyes sliding from his jaw to his facial features. Her mind was full of the scenes of last night. She couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation in her heart, and subconsciously clamped her legs together.
"The Industry and Information Technology Association has announced the first batch of virtual operators. There are 15 licenses in total, and Orange Communications has obtained one. You can merge the Star Card and Enterprise Card businesses."
Chen Yansen turned around and gave instructions to Ye Qiuping.
Orange Communications?
Is this company part of the group?
Ye Qiuping immediately nodded in agreement, but her eyes were full of confusion.
"I registered it two years ago." Chen Yansen explained in a calm tone.
Shortlisted alongside Orange Communications are Ali, Yidong, HNA and other companies.
Virtual operators can only purchase communication services from basic telecommunications operators such as China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, and then sell them to users after repackaging the brand and adding service content.
To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to the business intermediary of the three major operators, and it still uses the "wholesale → retail" business model.
However, virtual operators have certain flexibility and package customization rights.
"Boss, do you want me to be in charge of Orange Communications?"
Ye Qiuping thought about it for a while and quickly realized what was happening. She pointed at her nose with an expression of disbelief on her face.
She has only been in Senlian Capital for two years. Is she going to complete a triple jump?
"Are you okay?" Chen Yansen asked with a smile.
"Boss, I can do it." Ye Qiuping answered firmly.
Although she had never been to a proper university, she had been to an improper university student.
Bah, it should be said that she actually worked.
Just looking at how Ye Qiuping rose through the ranks from a marketing specialist to the director of the marketing department of Dongfang by her own efforts, it can be seen that apart from her lack of academic qualifications, Master Ye is very capable.
After joining Orange Technology, his operational management level even doubled through training in multiple projects.
It's more than enough for me to be the CEO of a small project.
"Just do it first. If you don't produce decent results, you won't be able to keep your position stable." Chen Yansen took a sip of lemon tea and reminded lightly.
"I always sit still." Ye Qiuping licked her lips and said with a double entendre.
Chen Yansen smiled and didn't respond.
Master Ye is still the same Master Ye, like a wild fox peeing, so noisy.
"Okay, you go back first. I have an appointment with someone." Chen Yansen waved his hand and said.
"Then will you go back to the villa at night?" Ye Qiuping asked, staring at him.
This time when she came to Luzhou, only half of the space in her suitcase was occupied by spare clothes, and the other half was filled with Boss Chen's favorite chef, nurse, Avatar and Spider-Man uniforms.
But yesterday, none of these props were used.
"Yes." Chen Yansen replied.
Ye Qiuping smiled, grabbed the handbag on the stool, and walked out obediently.
As for who Mr. Chen had made an appointment with, whether it was a man or a woman, she would not ask, nor did she dare to ask.
Ten minutes later, Song Yuncheng pushed the door open and walked in, and saw Chen Yansen in front of the glass window at a glance.
Although Mr. Chen was wearing a hat and sunglasses, revealing only half of his face, he was the only other person as tall as him in the entire store.
What's more, the two of them have been together day and night for more than three years, and even if he only looks at his mouth shape, Song Yuncheng can recognize him at a glance.
"She's gone?" Song Yuncheng asked in a low voice.
"Well, what to drink?" Chen Yansen answered casually.
The "she" Song Yuncheng mentioned was "Mengjie", while the "she" Chen Yansen answered was "Ye Qiuping".
"I don't want to drink." Song Yuncheng shook his head. It didn't feel good to share Chen Yansen with others.
But she didn't know that there was someone cutting in line.
"Come for a walk with me."
Chen Yansen stood up, opened the glass door, and strode towards the direct-operated store opposite.
Seeing this, Song Yuncheng hurriedly chased after him.
Before the two of them got closer, they saw a young man with dyed yellow hair sitting on a small stool with an Orange C3S in front of him. The screen showed the live broadcast interface of Douyin, and the camera was facing the huge crowd of people queuing.
It was obviously a live broadcast of the grand opening day of the Orange product offline.
Chen Yansen looked closely and saw reward effects popping up continuously in the lower left corner of the screen.
Can this make money?
This is fucking outrageous!
Chen Yansen did not enter the direct-operated store, but instead walked in the opposite direction, heading west.
On the way, you can occasionally see an Orange Q1 electric car passing by, and Kuaipao deliverymen and Yunsu couriers shuttling back and forth in front of shops along the street.
Young people are already accustomed to paying by scanning codes.
He secretly observed and found that among 10 people, 5 would use Orange Pay, 3 would use WeChat Pay, and only 2 would use Zhifubao.
Of course, according to more detailed market reports, Orange Payment’s offline market share is as high as 60%.
Although WeChat Pay has nearly 700 million active social users, Orange Pay also has hundreds of millions of Yu'ebao users, with deposited funds of up to 600 billion yuan. It also deeply covers online payment scenarios such as Pinbei, Kuapao, AutoNavi, Kuaidi Taxi, and OFO Bicycles.
In addition, in order to seize the initiative, WeChat Pay and Zhifubao often launch instant discount activities by scanning codes. They want to grab the market, but the effect is not obvious.
In terms of financial resources, Senlian Capital is not inferior to Ali and Penguin.
In terms of the sophistication of subsidy allocation, WeChat Pay and Zhifubao are not as good as Orange Pay.
Therefore, although the three companies compete in the offline payment field, they are relatively restrained and no one has launched a large-scale red envelope war.
at the same time.
On Tver Street in the Northern Ice Kingdom, a long line of customers formed outside an Orange Smart Lifestyle store. From time to time, someone would look out to see how many meters away they were from the door.
Relying on the user base accumulated by Qingcheng D2, Qingcheng D2 SE and Orange C3S, Qingcheng D2S, Orange C4 and Yaocheng X2 were crazily sought after by users as soon as they were launched.
Fashionably dressed young men and women gathered in groups of three or four, discussing in low voices.
"Alina, the Orange C4 is a pretty good phone. Judging by its specs, it's no worse than the Apple or Sanxing phones. There's no need to spend an extra ten thousand rubles on the Yaocheng X2."
A tall, fair-skinned young woman with only a few freckles on her nose and cheeks persuaded her companion.
"Yulia, you don't understand! The Yaocheng X2 is equipped with the latest Alexa voice assistant, while the Orange C4 is one version behind. The experience is completely different."
Alina showed disdain and rejected her best friend's proposal without hesitation.
But after deducting the expenses of rent, food, clothes and cosmetics, there is actually not much money left.
A 32GB standard version of the Yaocheng X2 costs 30,000 rubles, while the 64GB high-end version costs 36,000 rubles.
In fact, if the Arctic had not abolished the import tariffs on mobile phones in September, Chen Yansen would have raised the price by another 10%.
Alina represents the true thoughts of many young people in Moscow. For them, whether it is iPhone 5s, Galaxy Note 3, or X2, they are all capital to show off when they go out.
The Orange C4 is 10,000 rubles cheaper and is just a sub-flagship phone, which is not worthy of her status.
This is similar to the young man in China who sold his kidney to buy an iPhone, risking his life to show off.
"Then don't ask me to borrow money next month." Yulia reminded helplessly with a dark face.
Earn money in Moscow and spend it in Moscow!
High income means high prices!
"Yulia, come on, do you really want to see me eating bread for a month?" Alina immediately backed off.
"There's really nothing I can do about you." Yulia sighed. She and Alina were college classmates and joined the same company after graduation.
The income is almost the same, but the consumption concepts are very different.
For her, the configuration of Qingcheng D2S is enough.
The rear 13-megapixel camera, combined with Orange Technology's AI imaging technology, has excellent performance in taking photos.
Half an hour later, both of them bought their favorite mobile phones and walked towards the apartment with satisfaction.
Similar scenes are also playing out in Eastern Europe, Africa and Western Europe.
From the winter of 2011 to the autumn of 2013, it took two years for Orange Technology to finally gain a foothold in the overseas market and gain a large number of fans.
In particular, the establishment of a developer community and the implementation of an application submission reward mechanism have greatly enriched the application ecosystem of Aurora Future OS, thereby reducing users' purchasing concerns.
In addition, Aurora Future OS outperforms iOS and Android systems in terms of security, operability and fluency, which has led to an increasing number of Orange phone users overseas.
October 19th was the second day after the Orange mobile phone was released, the first day of sales through domestic offline channels, and the first day of sales in overseas markets.
A total of 3.716 million units have been sold through online and offline sales networks!
In the two days before and after, the global total sales volume reached 5.943 million units, with a transaction volume of 14.52 billion!
1 million units sold in overseas markets in one day!
Although this sales volume covers many countries and regions including Africa, Southeast Asia, Western Europe and Eastern Europe, it is enough to prove that Orange Technology has successfully expanded overseas and occupied a certain market share overseas.
Apple's iPhone 5s and 5c sold 9.2 million units worldwide in their first week. Many people believed that Orange Technology would be able to tie this record in just three days.
With the continued media coverage, Orange phones are becoming increasingly popular among Chinese users.
Although some people pointed out that the Green Orange series accounts for 60% of Orange Technology's sales and cannot compare with Apple in terms of revenue, no one likes to hear the truth.
That evening, the 7 o'clock news specifically reported on the Yaocheng X2 and focused on introducing the Tiangong A100 chip.
If ordinary people don’t understand, how could the higher-ups not understand?
Compared with the Kirin chip that uses the ARM architecture, the Tiangong A100 chip is a pure domestically developed chip.
CCTV’s report is tantamount to giving the Tiangong A100 chip an official label - this is China’s first self-developed chip!
At the same time.
After being rejected by Chen Yansen, Jia Yaoting turned his attention to Lenovo Holdings.
After all, Lenovo has just surpassed HP in the PC business and become the world's number one computer brand.
If we can get Liu Chengzhi's recognition and support, subsequent financing will undoubtedly be much easier.
He asked the investment department to calculate that the initial investment in purchasing land, setting up production lines, establishing motor and electronic control R&D laboratories, plus labor costs would require at least 5 billion yuan.
How can we get enough money if we don’t get a few big business leaders to join in?
The other side.
After accepting strategic investment from Ali, He Xiaopeng of UC Browser has seen his voice gradually shrink.
According to the plan, Ali will make its third investment in March next year and achieve full ownership.
By then, will there still be a place for him in UC?
Therefore, He Xiaopeng almost let UC's management affairs go. He held a regular meeting once a week. During the rest of the time, he would either go out for drinks and dinner with Lei Yijun or chat with his friends in investment banks, determined to find the next trend.
You can't just go home and retire when you're only in your early thirties, right?
He Xiaopeng flipped through the news aimlessly, thinking about which bar to go to in the evening.
Suddenly, I caught a glimpse of a piece of news: "Tesla Model S LR sales in China have exceeded 3,000 units, and the 4890 Deep Blue battery may become the biggest winner!"
Pure electric car?
He Xiaopeng remembered that three days ago, Lei Yijun had talked to him at a dinner party and said that if there was an opportunity, he would also like to get involved in the new energy vehicle industry.
Make cars?
Is it possible?
He Xiaopeng scratched the stubble on his chin and pondered secretly.
(End of this chapter)
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