During the two-month trial period, we will lend you an M-88 digital phone for free to experience our company's newly opened CDMA digital communication network.

Your old Big Brother number will be tied to the new phone until the end of the trial period, and if you don't want to switch to a new digital phone, then after you hand over your M-88 phone to us, we will re-activate your old Big Brother service!" A salesperson in a light pink uniform of Hong Kong Telecommunications was smiling and explaining to a man who looked to be in his early forties.

"Free trial, which means I won't have to pay phone bills for two months?" the man asked.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Cai, I may not have explained it clearly. This free does not mean that the phone bill is waived, but that our M-88 mobile phone is temporarily free for you to use. Considering that the M-88 mobile phone is priced at 15,000 Hong Kong dollars over the counter, we will provide 5,000 trial service places this time, and the cost of lending a new mobile phone alone is as high as 75 million Hong Kong dollars!

Of course, we won't let you suffer! I looked at your spending data earlier. Over the past year, your average monthly bill bill was $455. Based on the price of HK$2 per minute at Big Brother, your monthly call time will generally not exceed 250 minutes.

Our newly opened CDMA digital network has specially prepared a monthly preferential package for new network users. It is divided into three grades: 199 yuan, 299 yuan, and 399 yuan. Among them, the 199 yuan monthly package includes basic functions such as caller ID and call forwarding, as well as 100 minutes of call duration and 100 text messages. The 399 yuan monthly package includes 250 minutes of call time and 500 text messages!

In other words, you only need to open a monthly package of 399 yuan. Enjoy 250 minutes of free airtime every month. For the excess, we will also give a preferential fee, only 1 Hong Kong dollar per minute, which is half cheaper than the original NMT network!" the sweet saleswoman still patiently introduced.

"It's been less than a year since my big brother bought it, and I'm not ready to change it for the time being, so I still won't participate in your event, it's too troublesome to do it in the future!" the middle-aged man shook his head noncommittally.

"Cai Sheng. After you listen to me, our company has also taken into account your situation, so we have specially launched a thanksgiving reward for buying a mobile phone and giving away the phone bill! This small M-88 digital mobile phone is priced at 15,000 Hong Kong dollars. However, if you join our newly opened CDMA digital network during the event, the HK$15,000 purchase fee will be returned to your mobile account in the form of phone bills!"

"Little girl, you're not joking, are you?" asked the middle-aged man with some disbelief.

"Cai Sheng. How could I lie to you! Look this way. The event poster on the wall is clearly written, buy a mobile phone and get a phone bill!" The saleswoman stretched out her white and slender index finger and pointed to the wall next to her, and sure enough, there was a beautifully made large poster. It's just that this Cai Sheng sat directly in front of the service desk after entering the door just now, and didn't pay attention to the posters pasted on the wall at all.

"Your Hong Kong Telecom is really bold, I think there must be some restrictions!" Cai Sheng did not rush to look at the poster next to him, but directly asked the salesperson behind the counter to explain it to him.

"Yes, users who participate in the event must choose a package of 399 yuan per month. In addition, the 15,000 yuan purchase fee you paid is not a one-time return. Instead, it will be returned at a rate of 399 yuan per month. Until it's all over. During this period, the user cannot terminate the consumption contract, otherwise the remaining phone bill will be automatically invalidated!"

The female salesman's words made this Cai Sheng frown, which means that he still has to take out 15,000 Hong Kong dollars in one go. The saleswoman saw that the expression on the other party's face was a little unswerving, so she immediately continued: "I suggest that Cai Sheng try our new CDMA digital network this time, compared to the NMT network you used before, its signal quality is much better.

You've definitely experienced it before when you've used Big Brother and the phone stops suddenly in the middle of a call due to a bad signal, or it's a very loud 'rustling' noise when you make a call. These are all problems that the first generation of analog cellular technology struggled to solve. Compared to the extremely bad signal network of Unicom, we have invested a lot in the infrastructure of the NMT network!

However, the CDMA network we launched this time is a new second-generation digital cellular technology. Not only is it more secure in terms of call quality, but it also makes a leap forward in confidentiality. In the previous analog network, as long as people with a certain amount of radio knowledge could use equipment to decipher and monitor, the degree of secrecy was actually very poor!"

In the end, when this Cai Sheng left the business hall of Hong Kong Telecom, he had an extra bag in his hand. Eventually, he was persuaded to try out the compact M-88 digital phone and HKT's new CDMA digital network.

"Ah Mi, your results today are good, and you have another 200 bonus! What do you think about the company, such an expensive mobile phone will be given away for free to try! After two months, the new mobile phone has become an old mobile phone, and even if you take it back, it is not worth anything at all!" Another salesman next to him said in a somewhat envious tone.

This sweet-looking salesperson is called Shen Mi, she brushed the bangs in front of her forehead, sorted out the trial contract signed by Mr. Cai just now, and then put it in a drawer and placed it together with another stack of contracts of the same type.

"It's just a matter of buying horse bones, so it's easy to cause a sensation!" Shen Mi said with a light smile.

Her brother was a senior executive at Hong Kong Telecom, so he let her know more inside information than other colleagues. For example, although the counter price of the M-88 is marked as 15,000 Hong Kong dollars, the Oriental Research Institute actually provided 5,000 test mobile phones to Hong Kong Telecom for free. This is also Hong Kong Telecom's willingness not to charge a deposit at all. The fundamental reason for such a generous free loan to users to use.

For the Oriental Research Institute, these 5,000 mobile phones are all products of small batch trial production before. The real finalized model of the M-88 still has some slight differences from this batch of pre-production products. So these phones are not disposed of even if they are not half sold and half given away. In the end, it will not be officially put on sale.

You must know that this batch of trial production mobile phones even has the model name "M-88", not even the brand name. After all, Huaxing Company has just begun to be separated from the Oriental Research Institute, and fortunately, the production of consumer electronics of the Oriental Group is based on the outsourcing model.

Therefore, the task of producing mobile phones for M-88 has long been entrusted to the subsidiary of Star Optoelectronics. Xingguang Electronics has now built a mobile phone production line with an annual output of 200,000 M-88 units, and can further expand production at any time according to the needs of subsequent orders.

"Hello, I hope to participate in this event on your poster to buy a mobile phone and give away a phone bill!" Ah Mi was tidying up the counter with her head down. Suddenly, a somewhat awkward voice spoke to her. She immediately changed her smile, and when she looked up, she found that it was a somewhat elegant man in a black suit.

"Sir. Buy a mobile phone and get a free call bill will officially start next month!You can only participate in our M-88 mobile phone free trial for the time being!" Shen Mi explained softly.

"But I'm not your analog phone user!" said the man in the suit, shaking his head.

Then you need to pay a deposit of 15,000 yuan to get the right to use the M-88 mobile phone. The batch of mobile phones we are doing now are all trial machines provided by the factory. The official M-88 digital phone will be launched after the trial event, and you can choose to change to a new one. And if you are really not satisfied with the digital mobile phone, you can also choose to open the big brother of the NMT analog network, or simply return the deposit directly!" Shen Mi immediately replied.

According to the company's requirements, if there are users who want to open Big Brother in the near future, they will try their best to try the M-88 mobile phone first. Although the customer in front of me is not here to buy Big Brother, the solution is the same.

"Is it possible for me to turn on two phones at the same time?" the man in the suit asked a more unexpected question.

A hint of surprise flashed in Shen Mi's eyes, but she immediately nodded and said that it was no problem: "Yes, sir, but you need to pay a deposit for two M-88s!"

The other party doesn't seem to care if it's 15,000 or 30,000 at all. He happily pulled out a credit card. Because the real-name system is required to open a mobile phone, Shen Mi found out that the elegant and handsome man in front of him was not from Hong Kong. It's a Korean, no wonder the other party's Cantonese is a little awkward.

It didn't take long for the Korean to hurriedly walk out of the business hall with two small boxes. Just off the road outside this business hall, a silver-gray Mercedes-Benz sedan was parked.

"Director Park, I have already bought two M-88 digital mobile phones according to your instructions!" The man who had just walked out of the business hall immediately trotted to the Mercedes-Benz car, bowed and handed the two mobile phones in his hand to a man in the back of the car very respectfully.

"Good job in Eun! You take this one, call me in ten minutes!" Director Park handed out one of the phone cases, and the car quickly started and left.

Not long ago, Korea Mobile Communications Corporation (KMT) received an invitation letter from the Oriental Research Institute to come to Hong Kong to inspect the second-generation digital cellular mobile communication system. KMT is the first and now the only mobile telecommunications operator in Korea. Since 1984, it has introduced the technology of Japan's NEC company and opened Korea's first mobile communication network in Seoul.

Director Park Chang-hyuk, who came to Hong Kong on behalf of KMT this time, has carefully collected a lot of information as early as when he was in Korea. But for many things, Park Chang-hyuk believes that hearing is false, and seeing is believing. Therefore, shortly after arriving in Hong Kong, Director Park wanted to personally test the CDMA digital mobile network that had been put into operation by Hong Kong Telecom.

Park Chang-hyuk stayed at the Excelsior Hotel on Hong Kong Island across Victoria Harbour, so after getting off the plane from Kai Tak Airport, he had to go through the Harbour Tunnel to Hong Kong Island. But after seeing a Hong Kong telecommunications business hall on the side of the road on the way, Park Chang-hyuk couldn't wait to send a man who came to pick up the airport to buy two digital mobile phones that are said to be the world's first.

As soon as the car exited the Hung Hom Cross Harbour Tunnel, Park Chang-hyuk was playing with his mobile phone when he suddenly heard a crisp sound of "ding dong" from the mobile phone, which was the prompt tone of receiving a text message. According to the instruction manual he had read before, he was basically able to operate the mobile phone with ease.

It was a text message from the system reminding him that someone had called him a few minutes earlier, but it didn't get through. Park Chang-hyuk immediately guessed that this was the subordinate who got out of the car earlier, and called him ten minutes later as he had agreed. However, because the car was still in the undersea tunnel at that time, it did not receive any mobile phone signal.

However, in the form of free text messages, the system will inform the user in the form of text messages as soon as the mobile phone can receive the signal, so as not to miss a heavy call. This made Park Chang-hyuk immediately have a lot of affection for this M-88 phone, which has fully considered the customer experience in many small details.

Park Chang-hyuk immediately dialed back with his mobile phone, and the other party quickly picked up the phone: "Director Park, I'm in Silver!"

"In Eun, can you hear me, how do you feel on the call, do you feel the cacophony of noises, etc?" asked Park Chang-hyuk.

"Director, I heard it very clearly, except for you speaking, there was hardly any noise!" The other party's answer was also very clear, and Park Chang-hyuk did not hear any noise in the middle. He was answering the phone in a fast-moving car, knowing that Big Brother could easily disconnect in such a situation.

Park Chang-hyuk tested it for a few more minutes before hanging up, and the quality of the CDMA network had far exceeded his expectations. This made him look forward to tomorrow's meeting with CEFC, which is said to have just been spun off from the Oriental Research Institute and is in charge of the mobile communications business.

As an industry insider, Park Chang-hyuk is naturally very concerned about the latest progress in mobile communication technology. KMT had been aware of a number of international patents for CDMA technology filed by the Oriental Institute for several years.

Park Chang-hyuk is also basically clear about the principle of code division multiple access technology, and he understands very well that the network system resources occupied by each mobile phone using CDMA technology are much smaller than the traditional first-generation analog cellular technology. In other words, the same facility, the CDMA network can carry many more users than the first generation of analog cellular technology, and even more than the time division multiple access technology (GSM) being developed in Europe.

If the CDMA technology is fully mature, and Huaxing's price is appropriate, KMT is naturally willing to return the relevant technology to South Korea and gradually replace the original analog cellular network.

Naturally, the invitation from Huaxing is not limited to South Korea's KMT, a mobile communications operator. HKT's CDMA network will be a business card for China Renaissance in front of customers all over the world, so it is natural that he will spare no effort to support HKT's CDMA network operation. (To be continued.) )