Chapter 616 - A Different Circ.u.mstances (1/2)
It had been two weeks since the bombshell, Univ One, was thrown into the ICT industry. The waves it created had not yet dissipated and seemed to have no plans to settle down just yet.
The fame spread out to the public, inciting a lot of consumers to download Univ One's app and experience for themselves the services it provided.
Since Univ One was a recent creation, the public who always loved to try new things favored this trending new app until it became a hot trend in the public.
The social media platforms were full of Univ One's news, and even in the business industry, it was the topic of their conversation.
Whenever Univ One was mentioned in the discussion, ZD World would also be brought up.
A lot of people were wondering, with the appearance of Univ One, how would ZD World handle this unexpected strong rival?
ZD World sure was great. Being the pioneer in providing the first app with the unprecedentedly comprehensive features previously only offered by separate operators and service providers, offered through the latest exclusive international mobile network was its advantage. However, with the rumors flying around, ZD World's credibility was greatly hit by the public.
There was even a rumor that ZD World stole Univ One's technology and took the chance to launch the project first, resulting in Univ One having no choice but to back down and make new feature adjustments so as to not be exactly the same as ZD World.
It could be said that a lot of consumers were now eyeing Univ One after tasting the magnificent delicacy that was the ZD World. And the public seemed to buy Univ One's stories.
Yet despite all these, there was no public announcement from SC Company yet and their stance was strangely quiet.
This made the public's suspicions about ZD World increase.
However, unbeknownst to the public, SC was not silent at all.
They were quietly laying down the groundwork for a huge reversal while moving discreetly and appeasing all their important clients first.
Fortunately, Linfeng had been careful in choosing their core clients and partners. Those tycoons who had keen eyes and knew that the outside rumours were most likely just a large drama played out by Univ One's company were not swayed by the rumors. With their resources and network of contacts, they soon confirmed that this was indeed only a hype.
In the first month since Univ One's appearance, when Univ One was constantly occupying the top spot of the downloads, SC suddenly came out and casually dropped an announcement.
ZD World would be expanding their peak coverage to another six more countries. The articles they released contained solid details of new batches of state of the art tower facilities of the ZD Comprehensive Project in other countries.
This sudden news yet again rocked the ICT world.
Not even a year passed, but they have already reached their first success expansion?!
With the addition of the new countries, the range of ZD World increased. Its international mobile network supported by the exclusive latest Nth generation of mobile technology had become wider and the existing users could also freely connect to users of those six countries under ZD Network through the same ZD World app while enjoying many benefits.
Under the banner of public-private partnership and inclusion of the domestic cellular service providers, the ICT industry in the six countries widely promoted ZD World.
Aside from the benefits previously given to them, with the appearance of ZD World, the government would receive a lot of benefits in the future development, and for the business corporations and various institutions, the convenience that ZD World could provide to them to support their operations easily could add a great boost in keeping up with the global trends.
”ZD World is finally here!”
”I've always been envious of those countries boasting about having ZD World, but fortunately, I don't have to anymore! I can also use it now!”
”Download, let's download and try it out! Is it really as good as what they all say?”
The people from the six additional countries who excitedly tried out the famous global app network immediately found ZD World convenient and useful.
Such lightning data speed!
The network had no buffer time at all!
Such amazing reliability even inside the elevators and deep bas.e.m.e.nt floors!
Thus, ZD World users increased once more. The previously stagnant rank in downloads rose again in a few days and dominated the global ICT industry once more.
The businessmen who had not yet given up on ZD World used this opportunity to knock for cooperation with SC again before anyone else. Some people who were wavering into going to Univ One now become desperate to hop back to SC.
How could they not hope to land a cooperation with SC?
Even though Univ One was a great project with lots of potential for being a second ZD World, it still could not beat ZD World who had already done its first expansion.
It was like comparing a person who ran the first l.a.p meeting the person who had already run his second l.a.p.
Thus, ZD World's expansion overwhelmed all ICT related news, toppling down Univ One's glory and pushing Univ One's fame behind them.
All the spectators kneeled down.
They were waiting for a counterattack from SC to clarify the rumours. Who knew, instead of responding to the provocation, it was as if they did not take Univ One seriously at all and casually did something big!
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Guan Gao Huan was drinking alone in the highest floor of LG Club.
It was his third glass already, yet none of the alcohol went to his system.