Chapter 264 International Telecommunication Standards
That is, it is easy to arouse the suspicion of countless people, and if there is no transitional knowledge and transitional technology support for too advanced technology, others may not recognize your technology, let alone someone buy your patent immediately.
It is impossible for a technology that has been questioned by countless people or not recognized by others to form an international standard that is recognized by the international technical community. Without a huge technical force as a foundation and without the support of a huge enterprise, it is simply a fool's dream to form a set of international standards on its own and to become a first-class enterprise that "sells standards".
The reason why Qualcomm has become an enviable first-class company that sells standards is that they have many high-tech think tanks at the beginning of their establishment, and have strong support from international giant enterprises such as Microsoft and Intel. Because many of the think tanks in the think tanks themselves are the technical executives of these giant enterprises, as soon as their standards or patents are promulgated, these giant enterprises will admit their accounts and pay for them, and the suppliers under these companies will have to recognize these standards and compete to buy relevant patents, so that Qualcomm's standards and patents have a huge impact on the industry, forcing peripheral companies to join.
It can be said that without the support of these giant enterprises, no one would pay attention to their technical standards, let alone sell them, no matter how good they are.
Whether a set of standards can become a standard recognized by the world is also related to the strong support of countries and even national alliances, and not only because of how advanced the patents you come up with and the standards you write are.
Speaking of which, in response to the readers' constant scolding of the protagonist Jiang Xinwei why he didn't immediately study the tall products and technologies (in fact, it was to scold the author for why I didn't write about cowhides), because the author had to tear the topic away a little.
I don't know if any of the readers have learned communication, and whether they have ever been confused about the relevant technical standards. For example, in the field of communications, why do we always encounter American and European standards? For example, why is there an American U-law and a European A-law for the digitization of voice in telephone communications? In fact, as long as we study it a little deeply, we can find that the technical principle is the same whether it is a U-law or a law, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is not only unnecessary to do so. And to come up with these two sets is to deliberately find trouble, deliberately make the relevant parameters different, and lead to the fact that the two sets of equipment that follow different standards cannot be interconnected, so why bother?
What should be done precisely because the two devices cannot be interconnected? The International Telecommunication Union stipulates that when the two devices are interconnected, the A law and the U law. The law of u should be converted into law a.
In fact, in addition to the field of communication, other fields are the same, it is not as good as the unit of length or something, some people use meters, some people use inches, some people use kilograms for weight units, and some people use pounds......
How good it would be if it was unified, it would not be a matter at all technically. It can be achieved very lightly.
The reason why it is so troublesome and why it cannot be unified is because it involves the huge economic interests of the United States and Europe, and in order to get more money and more income for themselves, no one wants their own standards to be unified by the other party.
Everyone knows that first-class companies sell standards.
In order to obtain the ownership of the standard, in order to obtain the gold mine, many technologically powerful enterprises and scientific research units often form a group to conduct research on international standards, because international standards are a patent collection. There must be a large number of original technical specifications, and there must be countless supporting technologies outside the standard. It's hard to imagine without a strong scientific research team.
Waiting for the patents to come out, all that remains is to conquer the ITU expert group and get them to propose these patents as an international standard. Only in this way, the proposal is successful, and the owner of the technology can make a long-term profit, so that others can dig one giant hole after another. in order to make others obediently pay a lot of money......
The United States is a global leader in technology, has put forward a lot of international telecommunications standards, and has made countless money, which has naturally aroused the eyes of other countries or groups, but the threshold for formulating international telecommunications standards is too high. High-tech, the support of giant enterprises and abundant funds are indispensable, and even an economically underdeveloped country does not want to have an international standard.
European countries have fought with the United States individually, but often because of a slight lack of technology, but more often than not, they are defeated by lack of funds, the support of giant enterprises, and the low voice in the international telecommunication union.
In the end, European countries lost their temper, and seeing that a single country could not compete with the United States, they had to huddle together and attack international standards.
In this way, everyone has seen an interesting phenomenon: as long as the Americans come up with a standard, Intel, Motorola and other American giant companies will support it, and use relevant patents and technologies in the whole line of products as soon as possible. As soon as Europeans came up with standards, European giants such as Alcatel, Ericsson and Nokia announced their support and would immediately incorporate these technologies into their products.
On the one hand, many of the patents in these standards come from them, and they themselves are beneficiaries when the standards are sold, on the other hand, whether the standards come out of the United States or the standards from Europe, there may not really be a difference between them, just like the U-law and the A-law mentioned earlier, there is no essential difference at all. Since you can use it, why don't you use your own, why don't you let yourself get benefits?
Therefore, in many cases, international standards are not fighting for technology, but for fighting national power, and fighting is national power.
This situation is fully expressed when competing with the GS-M standard and the CDMA standard. Both standards are second-generation mobile communications (2G) standards, but the first was developed by ETSI, the European telecommunications standards organization, and the other was developed by Qualcomm in the United States.
GS-M uses time division multiple access technology, and CDMA uses spread spectrum multiple access technology. These two technologies may be very different for experts, but there is not much difference for mobile phone users, there is not much difference in technical level at all, and as both sides continue to supplement the technology and continuously improve the relevant performance, both mobile phones are very easy to use, if the world is unified into any of these ways, can save a lot of interconnected devices, can save a lot of costs for consumers.
However, neither the United States nor Europe will abandon their own standards and adopt the other's standards, because neither is willing to take money out of its own pocket and send it into the other's pocket.
In 1991, Europe opened the GS-M digital mobile communication system in Finland, because the table has far more advantages than the first generation of analog mobile communication, manufacturers are very interested in this kind of system, and have proposed to build this kind of system. Many foresee that such a system will take the world mobile market by storm.
The Americans were in a hurry, and immediately promoted the CDMA standard owned by Qualcomm, constantly publicized the advanced nature of CDMA, and fully promoted it in the United States and Canada, and finally became a strong competitor of GS-M.
Qualcomm has also made a lot of money by granting more than 4,000 CDMA-related patents to more than 100 communications equipment manufacturers. Of course, Europe earns more because their standards are adopted by more than 100 countries around the world, and the communication equipment related to them accounts for more than 80% of the world's cellular mobile communication equipment market!
As for China, because of the lack of its own technology patents, it has to pay a huge amount of patent fees, but also because of the huge base of people who use mobile phones in China, and the funds paid are even more astronomical, which is even more painful. Not only telecommunications companies, but also many small factories that provide equipment for giant enterprises such as Ericsson, Nokia, and Motorola, the workers in them are working hard, but the profits they make are very small, they can only make a little hard-earned money, and they can only leave a small part for themselves.
Under the coordination of the relevant state departments, China's telecommunications enterprises have made a balance between the two standards, and at the same time paid a large amount of patent fees to the owners of the two standards, they took advantage of the competitive relationship between the two sides to obtain a little reduction or reduction: the method adopted by China is that the two standards coexist, and the mobile company uses the GS-M standard, while the Unicom company adopts the CDMA standard.
In order to gain more customers, the two companies in China are desperately boasting for the gringos in front of the Chinese people, and they are talking loudly about how superb and advanced the technology they use.
By the time the 3G standard was brewing in the International Telecommunication Union, the Americans felt that their CDMA 2000 had a great disadvantage over the WCDMA launched by Europe, and that it was lagging behind European standards in many aspects. If these two standards were to be submitted to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for standard determination, it would probably be that only one international telecommunication standard, GuòWCDMA, would be adopted.
If the standard proposed by Europe is selected, even if they add new patents and new technologies in the future, and finally strive to become an international telecommunications standard, but the last opportunity has passed, Europe will definitely lead the global 3G again, and they can only run behind them again, and they may not be able to get 20% of the share like 2G.
Of course, the United States will not be happy, so how can it cede dominance to Europe again?
The Yankees frowned and came up with a trick, that is, to drag Huaxia Kingdom in, they immediately sent high-level representatives to Huaxia Kingdom, found the leaders of relevant departments, and asked straight to the point: "Have you carried out 3G research in Huaxia Kingdom?"
The leader of Huaxia who was asked was in a fog and did not know what the Yankees meant by this, but it was not easy not to answer, and he could not answer that China had not yet produced any results in research, right? ”
The Yankees were a little disdainful in their hearts, but they said happily on their faces: "Great! You must want to make your technology an international telecommunications standard, right? …… How about we?"
(Thank you for your support) (To be continued......) R1292