Chapter 371 Motorola entered the Chinese market overnight

A night of poetry is a night of poetry and an indescribable soul cleansing.

Gu Biao's cognition of life has also been fully purified and sublimated.

Making friends with literary and artistic young women is a lot of gains.

Maybe some people in later generations will criticize "demented literary women", but that's just because the threshold for becoming literary and artistic young women in later generations has become lower, and women can cosplay and pretend to be literary and artistic young women. Therefore, the extremes of things must be opposed, which caused a backlash from men who are incompetent in distinguishing authenticity.

However, in the 80s, there were not so many pretending to force the Bible to show you, and the sincere ones were still pretending, which can be seen at a glance. Compared with other women of the same era, literary and artistic young women are already a relatively progressive life existence.

Just like you can't use "it's unhealthy to eat butterbread in 2020" and push back "it's not healthy to eat bread in 1980". An era has an era of aesthetics and scarcity, which cannot be set.

Gu Biao really enjoys life, and that's enough.

The two were very restrained, so they didn't sleep lazy, and just after dawn at 7 o'clock in the morning, they cleaned up handsome and beautiful, and went downstairs to the cafeteria for breakfast.

Because the hotel was chartered by the organizing committee, and the meeting had not officially started, most of the rooms were still empty, and there were not many buffet dishes in the restaurant.

When Gu Biao walked into the restaurant with Xiao Sui in his arms, he saw Han Ting drinking coffee elegantly in the corner alone from a distance.

Gu Biao was a little embarrassed and wanted to pretend not to see it, but Han Ting greeted him.

"Xiao Gu, here are your things. Han Ting didn't make a big voice, and after beckoning, she tapped the table with her knuckles and pointed to a cardboard box.

Gu Biao hurriedly turned his face sideways, and naturally explained: "Teacher Han is also here to attend the meeting, it should be something sent by the conference affairs team, let's go and see together." ”

"It won't be rude, right?" Xiao Sui was a little worried.

"It's fine. Gu Biao said, and walked over with Xiao Sui in his arms.

Han Ting didn't have any opinion at all, nor did she reveal anything, and generously pushed the beautifully packaged color printing wax carton over.

"Mr. Galvin's assistant was sent to me yesterday. He also looked for you, but he didn't. I guess you're going to have a candlelight dinner on Valentine's Day, so I'll take you with you, so that they won't disturb your Yaxing by cooking cranes and burning the qin. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Han, you are so kind and careful. Xiao Sui bowed slightly gratefully and returned the salute to Han Ting.

Han Ting was calm: "What is this, aren't you curious about what it is?" ”

Xiao Sui was slightly surprised: "Do you have my share too?"

At the same time, Gu Biao also had something he thought was strange, and asked while dismantling it: "Mr. Han, didn't Motorola say that it would send a CTO to attend this academic conference? Why did someone from the Galvin family come in person in the end? This time it was just to discuss the international electromagnetic compatibility industry standard, and let the chairman come in person, the specifications are a bit too high." ”

Han Ting picked up the hot milk, stirred it with a stirring rod, took a sip, and then said: "After reading it, you will know, Motorola took the opportunity to cooperate with the Hujiang Municipal Government this time, so that the pager entered the Chinese market for the first time." ”

Gu Biao and Xiao Sui also unpacked the package, Xiao Sui didn't recognize the things inside, but Gu Biao recognized it at a glance.

IT WAS A MATTE BLACK ELECTRONIC DEVICE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A LATER IPOD-MP3 WITH A SMALL LCD SCREEN AS LONG AS A CALCULATOR.

"This is Motorola's chopper, well, the scientific name is a digital pager. Gu Biao explained to Xiao Sui, "That is, if someone calls you in the future, the caller number can be displayed on the small LCD screen of this machine, and you can find a phone call nearby." For business people like us who are uncertain, it is especially convenient to have urgent matters. ”

Gu Biao didn't know that in fact, according to the original historical development trajectory, the first city in China to have BP machine business was Hujiang, and it appeared in 1983.

It's just that at the beginning, Motorola first promoted it to the Yuezhou Municipal Government for a long time. I feel that Guangdong will hold the Canton Fair twice a year in spring and autumn, and the demand for foreign instant messaging is relatively large and there are more business opportunities. But in the end, Guangdong was unwilling to undertake the investment in infrastructure construction such as base stations and paging stations, and the project was yellow.

In the second half of the year, Motorola turned its guns around and began to go to Hujiang to find a way, and finally met a bold decision-maker, in order to improve the city's image and force, to become "China's first big city with pager business", access to this service.

In the following years, the modernization benchmark of Hujiang once surpassed that of Guangdong, which made the people of Guangdong Province, who have always regarded themselves as the Canton Fair and the "window of opening to the outside world", very unconvinced. Finally, four years later, in 1987, before the Canton Fair in the fall of 87, when Motorola found the local government again, the people of Guangdong were ruthless and invested in the construction of cellular base stations in the city, becoming the first city in China to introduce mobile phone business.

Later, in 88 years, and in the year after 88 years, mobile phone base station coverage entered Hujiang and Beijing respectively, and these two cities became the second and third mobile phone business in China. Throughout the late 80s, only these three first-tier cities in China had mobile phone signals. Other provincial capitals with strong second-tier cities will have "big brothers" by 1990.

And now, apparently because of Gu Ao's butterfly effect, Motorola itself has to come to Hujiang to participate in the IEC Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, so Motorola's promoters have also changed their promotion strategy and come to Hujiang more than half a year in advance.

In order to better serve foreign businessmen, do a good job in this international academic conference, and ensure that the city's international image is an instant hit, the local government has taken extra courage to tighten its belt and launch the project ahead of schedule.

If a city has a wireless paging station business, it sounds more compelling and in line with international standards, so it is better to invite various international business and academic organizations to the city for meetings in the future.

Otherwise, when people come, they can't find anyone when they call them, and the contact efficiency is low, wouldn't it be a shame.

At the same time, the government may not have plans to further engage Motorola and hope that Motorola will come to China for more project cooperation. With 83 years of investment promotion, Motorola is a very hot international top communications giant.

Compared with Gu Biao, Xiao Sui is even more innocent at the technical level, not only does she not know history, but she also doesn't know how to use this thing, so she inevitably asks for advice on the spot.

"Husband, how do you use this thing?

Gu Biao: "It shouldn't work at the moment, this thing must have a phase, it depends on where the signal is covered." ”

Han Ting on the side also nodded in confirmation: "That's right, Xiao Gu is very knowledgeable, if you are interested, you can find the technical support of the Municipal Post and Telecommunications Bureau, they will tell you the current signal coverage in the city, when I received the machine yesterday, there was a person in charge of the base station construction party who gave me a verbal introduction - anyway, this hotel must be the best place in the city, on the roof, on the top of the revolving restaurant, there is a small signal tower." ”

Xiao Sui was very curious when he heard this: "It turns out that there are still special signal towers, so if there are fewer people using them, the cost of the signal tower is more expensive than what is this BB machine? How expensive does this machine have to be sold to pay back? Motorola's people actually gave it away for free? Can you take me upstairs to see what the signal tower looks like in a while?"

Han Ting explained with a smile: "Then you can only find the person in charge of technical support, and I will contact you later." As for the price of this machine, it is currently sold at a high price, and it is divided into two levels according to the performance of the machine.

One file is not with screen display, only ringtone, you have to call back to the manual pager, report the local number, and tell you which number just called your number after the customer service inquiry, you write it down and then call back.

The high-end is this kind of LCD screen, which can only display Arabic numerals, and can directly display the phone number of the side that calls you, saving you from calling back to customer service to inquire, but the price is several times more expensive. ”

"Such a little thing, ...... More than a thousand, two thousand?" Xiao Sui speculated with his imagination.

"It's impossible, at least several times more expensive, have you forgotten that the cost of the tower should also be shared with the user. Gu Biao smiled and corrected.

Han Ting didn't sell it: "I asked when I received it yesterday, 4500 without a screen, 10,000 with a caller ID." ”

Xiao Sui gasped.

Although she had already seen a lot of money with Gu Biao, she still couldn't imagine that this thing was so much more expensive than other high-end imported household appliances.

Even Gu Biao, although he was mentally prepared, still had a feeling of vicissitudes: Nima paid an extra 8,000 yuan for a "caller ID" function!

Communication equipment is indeed the fastest depreciating thing in the world with the progress of science and technology.

In 1983, the "caller ID" on the land of China was so expensive and compelling.

It is estimated that the most beautiful scenery in Hujiang City this year will be in some office buildings, friendship stores, with a "Di Di", and then an elite person in a suit and tie, Shi Shiran took out a BB machine with a screen, and then used the posture of the rich man of later generations to raise his wrist to look at the Constantine watch to look at the time, and look at the caller number.

Xiao Sui sighed: "Is Motorola giving this kind of pager as a gift to every participating unit this time? How many people are there in total, and I have lost a lot of money." Besides, if those people left China, wouldn't it be useless? ”

Han Ting looked disdainful of the tricks of her peers: "Probably a total of 500 units will be sent out, the cost of Motorola is not as high as you think, the machine is actually not valuable, the key is the base station." On average, the cost of a maximum of 2,000 yuan is 100 yuan, and the gift of 500 units is million.

Spending only 1 million yuan, let all Chinese remember that 'Motorola is the representative of wireless communication and the first to enter the Chinese market', this advertising effect, is it not worth 1 million yuan? ”

Gu Biao also echoed: "Don't worry that it's useless for people to leave China, and they will definitely be given to new friends they met in China during the conference." I'm sure everyone would be happy to accept such a gift, and because it's a 'waste use', you won't make a mistake, so it's just a souvenir." ”