At present, although China has been authorized by the European GSM standard, theoretically, the formulation of standards is also to better collect patent fees, so the standard setter will also allow a large number of competitors to join the market. After all, if a competitor accepts a set of standards, they will at least pay royalties so that the standard-setter will not lose all his money.

If more peers are not allowed to enter the industry, the other party will choose other technical routes. It is precisely because of the dignified domestic statement that to build GSM base stations and mobile phones, the European labelers also welcome it.

However, if you want to use a domestically produced base station, you will have to wait until next year at the earliest. This is still Meng Xin's side, and a batch of GSM technical data in the 21st century will be brought here for digestion and absorption. So, don't look at the new entrepreneurship department has just gotten the GSM entry threshold, but ...... Next, it is definitely necessary to register a bunch of GSM-related patents, not only to reduce some patent costs yourself, but also to collect other people's patent fees.

Just like the GSM standard was originally developed in Europe, but in the 21st century, many patents have expired, and at the same time, some new patents have been created to maintain the patent income of the GSM camp. However, in Lin Qi's original world, the GSM standard patents at the beginning of the 21st century are no longer monopolized by European manufacturers, and companies such as Sony in Japan, Samsung in South Korea, and Motorola in the United States have also registered some new GSM patents later. It was also later that the number of GSM patents swelled, and the number of manufacturers charging patent fees increased, which once made the patent fees of GSM mobile phones account for 16%~17% of the retail price.

Just like Lin Qi and GSM, the current patent fee negotiated by several formulators does not exceed 3%, and it is limited to the patent fee of these companies. However, if Sony, Samsung, Motorola and other companies also register a large number of patents, then the total royalty will definitely exceed 3%, because the current agreement can only bind European manufacturers, and cannot bind other patent holders in the future.

It is precisely for this reason that the only way to reduce patent costs in the future is to have a large patent reserve.

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After confirming to join the GSM camp, domestic telecom operators have begun to build networks, and before the domestic GSM equipment has been put into production, a number of orders have been sent to Nokia, Ericsson and other companies.

The first batch of orders for domestic GSM base stations was sent from Nokia's headquarters in Europe.

After accepting the order, Nokia in Finland mobilized equipment and people directly from the headquarters to take flights to China in order to avoid long nights.

After getting off the plane, these business personnel began to assemble GSM wireless networks in China.

Of course, the base station equipment imported from Europe is sky-high, with a price of $1 million per GSM base station, and a small business of less than 100 base stations is not to be discussed. Of course, in order to make people feel a little better, each base station sends 1000 Nokia mobile phones, which is currently the source of GSM mobile phones sent by the three major domestic operators to the network for free. The three major operators bought a batch of base stations and GSM mobile phones at sky-high prices, and first put the business in first-tier cities into trial operation. After the business in the first-tier cities develops, the number of base stations will be gradually increased.

Of course, the GSM base stations imported from abroad are too expensive, and after the first batch of base stations were imported into China, the domestic telecommunications industry dismantled several sets of base stations, and found that the chips of GSM base stations are not necessarily more complicated than the chips of Pangu computers. There is also an antenna used in the base station, which is just a simple metal antenna, but it is not too complicated antenna, and it is also quoted at 20,000 US dollars, that is, if the antenna is broken, if you want to import it, you are welcome, 20,000 US dollars a set. In fact, after a little bit of domestic research, the antenna can be produced independently, with a price of 1,000 yuan and a gross profit of at least 500 yuan.

After the first batch of networks has just completed the acceptance, the three major operators began to carry out mobile phone-related business, but the current imported base stations are too expensive, so the temporary network construction is mainly based on "experiments", and each operator can build a maximum of 10 base stations per month. At present, the construction of base stations is mainly to train maintenance and business-related talents. Basically, we are doing the same thing with several times the human resources, mainly to reserve talents for future business expansion.

After the localized equipment is put into production next year, it will be the period of rapid construction of GSM base stations.

Because, after localization, the hardware cost of 2G base stations can be reduced to less than 500,000 yuan. Even if a set of standard base stations is quoted at 500,000 yuan, it is still a huge profit. The simple hardware cost can exceed 200,000 yuan.

The reason why this batch of equipment imported from overseas is so expensive is not only because of the high labor cost, transportation cost, and tariff cost in Europe and the United States. What's more, the other party is determined that China can't build this complete set of base station equipment at present, so the price is relatively high.

If it is in Europe, the same set of equipment is still profitable, but the quotation will be less than 300,000 US dollars! Mainly because, if the quotation is high, other local manufacturers will soon start to enter the industry on a large scale.

In fact, the 90s is also the era when global communication equipment companies entered the industry on a large scale, and a bunch of national manufacturers such as Japan, Europe, the United States, China, and South Korea have entered the industry. The key to better development prospects for communication equipment manufacturers lies in orders!

Later, China relied on the local market to feed a large number of the world's top giants in the communication equipment industry, such as Huawei and ZTE. However, ZTE and Huawei also have some key components, which are directly imported and integrated from overseas for the convenience of procurement. Huawei is not bad, even if some parts are purchased, but they have already done a good job of filing, once others do not supply, they will start their own solutions. It is precisely because Huawei has been preparing later, in the case of the supplier's out-of-stock, quickly replaced it with its own products, this practice of constantly looking at suppliers in the international market with a vigilant eye has not cut off Huawei's parts supply, because Huawei is really ready, do not use your parts, to make your own products.

Another giant, ZTE, almost most of the key components, are the use of components from mature international suppliers, because ZTE has never made a plan for suppliers to run out of stock, so ...... Later, in the Sino-US trade war, ZTE became a victim and was really cut off from supply by American suppliers.

Because imported communication base stations are too expensive, and only by localizing can jobs, tax revenues and technology be transferred to China.

Therefore, the state has also introduced relevant policies, GSM base station and mobile phone production, next year telecom operators to purchase base station equipment, parts localization rate needs to reach 35%, and three years later, that is, by the beginning of 96, GSM base station and mobile phone 95% of the parts need to be domestic production. This standard is undoubtedly set relatively high, but in fact, Lin Qi has made a lot of efforts behind the scenes to set such a high goal and standard.

Because the new entrepreneurship department has demonstrated its strength and made the country realize that three years later, it will be able to achieve more than 95% of the parts localization, so this policy was formulated.

"Lin, even if your Chinese manufacturers get GSM production authorization, I think it will be difficult to produce parts independently within three years. I think the best strategy for your country should be to choose multiple GSM equipment suppliers and let everyone compete so as to reduce the price, rather than producing it yourself!" William, the Chinese representative of Nokia, smiled at Lin Qi and said, "You know, there are tens of thousands of GSM-related patents now, and thousands of patents will be added every year in the future." These patents can be used for a fee, but with tens of thousands of patents, do you have enough talent to read these materials in a few years? Even if you can produce them, can they be more stable than our products?"

"Just like you Nokia, who would have thought that it used to be just a low-end manufacturing factory related to wood, paper and tires, but now it is a world-renowned giant in the telecommunications industry?"

"This one is different...... There are many developed countries in Europe, and the flow of talent is becoming more and more free. We can recruit a lot of experts and talents from other European countries, and the best talent from all over Europe is gathered to lay the foundation for Nokia's success in the telecommunications industry. William said proudly, "The technology of the telecommunications industry is no simpler than the CPU of Pangu computer and XRM architecture. And you will have a hard time replicating the opportunities of the past...... Pangea's success was mainly due to the collapse of the gaming giant Atari, which took over the home console market, and after that, the curve succeeded. XRM architecture chips, because the concept of reduced instruction set in the late 70s has just emerged, and traditional chip manufacturers are limited to vested interests and do not pay attention to the reduced instruction set. And you started from scratch, without the past market and achievements, and chose the best technical direction, so you have achieved leapfrog success. However, today's Intel, AMD and other companies, even if they are still dominated by complex instruction sets, have introduced the idea of reducing instruction sets to improve chips. Other giants, such as IBM's self-developed PoerPC, MIPS's MIPS, SUN's Sparc, Compaq's Alpha, and HP's PA-RISC...... These are the new reduced instruction set chips, and in terms of performance, they are not necessarily worse than your XRM chips. ”

Lin Qi responded indifferently: "You are very right. ”

In fact, the current moat of XRM architecture chips has become deeper and deeper, not only applied to Pangu computers, but also used in minicomputers, supercomputers, industrial control chips, traffic light traffic systems, access control systems, servers, ...... What's more, Lin Qi acquired the ARM team as a spare tire, and in the 80s~90s, the call for streamlining the instruction set has been very high. However, companies such as Intel have not invested much energy and determination in the new reduced instruction set architecture because of the market and profits of traditional businesses such as PCs.

IBM and other large companies have also developed some high-performance RI chips, but what is surprising is that these RI chips developed by large companies in the 80s ~ 90s have not been successful in the market.

What everyone didn't expect was that the low-end chip ARM chip developed by an unknown small team, relying on low power consumption and being widely licensed to the world's semiconductor design and manufacturing industry, turned out to be a great success of the ARM series chip, becoming the king of the chip industry with ten times the shipment volume of X86 chips.