Chapter 434 European Telecommunications Standards Institute

Originally, the schedule for this trip to Europe was relatively loose.

After everyone finished their trip to the Hannover Industrial Design Forum, they had at least a week to spare, and then went to France to join the expert group led by Gu Xueli.

During this week, Wu Tao originally planned to give the members of the delegation a vacation, and enjoy the customs of Europe by the way.

After all, it's hard to come out for a trip, and I can't even have a chance to travel.

However, plans do not always change quickly.

Who would have thought that after the forum meeting, there would be an unusually large number of foreign representatives, dozens of them.

In addition, the implementation of the order for 1 million Lotus mobile phones includes a lot of preparatory work.

This includes the certification of various European standards for Lotus mobile phones, the determination of network access permits and other procedures, plus the bargaining of the sharing model between the two parties, there is really a lot of work.

Only by confirming these can pave the way for the overseas expansion of the Lotus brand.

Otherwise, it can only be a small fight with a sales scale of hundreds of thousands of units like before, and it will not be a big deal.

So this became the top priority of the Yuanqi Technology delegation. Not only Xiao Zixia devoted herself to it, but Tao Changxuan and Cai Bing also devoted themselves to it.

After all, such things as standard certification require close cooperation from research and development.

Xiao Zixia was responsible for dealing with the market, and Wu Tao was responsible for other tasks of negotiation.

Tan Xiaofei made a list of all consultation appointments made by foreign representatives and handed them to Wu Tao.

Since she was praised last time, Tan Xiaofei was full of energy, even Xu Sheng, who cooperated with her, was far behind.

Wu Tao, who took the list, glanced at it, and found that they were all famous companies and organizations.

However, everyone's time is limited after all, and for those who have the potential to cooperate, we can't make them wait too long.

Wu Tao pondered for a moment, then handed the list back to Tan Xiaofei and said, "According to the degree of relevance to the company's current business, we will make overall arrangements and try to meet all of them within 3 days."

When Tan Xiaofei heard this, she couldn't help gasping.

Originally, when she handed over the list to the boss, she wanted him to decide to eliminate some company representatives and only choose the necessary ones to meet.

Unexpectedly, Wu Tao would fight so hard, and he would not let go of even the slightest chance.

So within a week, everyone in the delegation was busy going around. Even the time to eat and go to the bathroom must be carefully calculated.

Wu Tao took the lead in doing this, and the others couldn't complain.

Until March 6th, there was light rain in the sky of Hannover.

The delegation embarked on a new journey with a lot of harvest.

Everyone boarded the plane, Tan Xiaofei was already looking forward to the romance and prosperity of the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, and even Xiao Zixia couldn't help but be full of longing.

As the capital of romance, Paris has always been a place to attract women.

For this reason, Wu Tao specially chose to stay in Paris for one day, and then transferred to Nice to visit ETSI, the organization of the GSM standard.

After being out for so many days, Wu Tao began to feel a little homesick.

Especially standing on the streets of the Champs Elysees, looking at the hurried blonde, suddenly felt like a world away.

Ten years later, twenty years later, this is always the case here.

On the other hand, China has undergone earth-shaking changes in China. So much so that he stood on this unchanging street, and had the illusion that everything had never happened again.

It was not until the meeting with the expert team led by Gu Xueli in the afternoon that this feeling was completely diluted.

The old and the young went for a walk on the street after eating.

Gu Xueli couldn't help sighing, "Compared with developed countries, there is still a big gap between our country and developed countries. Whether we can catch up in the future depends on the efforts of your generation."

Wu Tao couldn't help laughing, "Grandpa, you can definitely catch up, the key is how long it takes."

"I'm old after all, so of course I hope it will be sooner rather than later." Gu Xueli's tone was a bit pessimistic.

Wu Tao immediately heard it, "Grandpa, did something happen?"

Gu Xueli waved his hand, and said with a sigh of looking back after all the vicissitudes: "It's nothing, it's just because of some gossip, the higher up gave some pressure."

After finishing speaking, the topic changed: "Do you think there is any problem with this contact with ETSI?"

"There should be a problem, but it shouldn't be a big one." Wu Tao saw Gu Xueli's hard-to-let go, so he avoided the serious one.

In fact, there must be problems.

Because of the sudden emergence of the Lotus brand, it is bound to affect the interests of European competitors, such as Nokia, Alcatel, Ericsson and other large foreign brands.

As a standardization association, many of its committee members are from these big foreign brands.

To put it bluntly, the European Telecommunications Standards Association itself is a product of mutual compromise between multiple manufacturers.

Since this is the case, the representatives of the relevant manufacturers are bound to interfere and affect the cooperation between the two parties.

Stayed in Paris for one night, and early the next morning, two delegations, totaling about 20 people, took the train to Nice.

More than five hours of travel passed unknowingly during the scenic sightseeing.

After leaving the train station, the ETSI pick-up bus was already waiting at the door.

The receptionist was a French girl with golden curly curls, in her early twenties, named Isabella.

A very French name.

Isabella seems to love to laugh, and when she smiles, it feels like the sun is shining on her face. Coupled with those exotic eyes and eyelashes, Wu Tao discovered that foreign girls also have their own aesthetic side.

Along the way, listening to Isabella's voice and seeing her smile, Wu Tao's mind relaxed a lot.

After half an hour's drive, everyone arrived at the headquarters of ETSI.

As the initiating group of the 2G standard, ETSI is not big at this time, and even looks a bit fake.

There are only two small buildings in the entire courtyard, and there are only 20 to 30 staff and permanent committee members, which is almost the same as the number of our own side this time.

The head of the deputy chairman named Frank, is a thin old French man. When talking, a pair of blue eyes always like to dodge, which makes people feel that they are not sincere enough.

After the meeting, everyone was already hungry.

Frank said a lot of words of welcome, and at the end of the meal, Wu Tao discovered that it was a fixed meal similar to a boxed meal.

I have to say, it was a bit shabby.

After lunch, Wu Tao wiped his mouth and casually said to Tan Xiaofei, "It seems that ETSI doesn't pay enough attention to us. Could it be that we are not welcome?"

Before Tan Xiaofei could speak, Isabella next to her unexpectedly asked, "Anyone?"

Although the voice was a bit weird, the French beauty who received the reception could actually speak Chinese.

"Uh, what do you think?" Surprised, Wu Tao exchanged glances with Tan Xiaofei before throwing the question to her.

Isabella thought for a few seconds seriously, then shook her head and said, "I don't think so, because we eat these at noon every day."

Listening to this exotic Chinese, Wu Tao felt that his bones were softening. You have reason for your big breasts.

"Isabella, how did you learn Chinese?"

"When I was in college, I learned from Huaxia foreign students. It's a pity that I can only speak but not write, so it's very bad..."