February 2 of the sixth year. The old Smankang company was imprisoned in the United States, which attracted great attention from Fan's machine research department.

Since the mid-90s, with the popularization of mobile phones, the mobile communications industry has become more prosperous than ever. The market is dominated by two major mobile service providers, China Mobile and China Unicom, which make a lot of money, while China Telecom, the former industry leader, cannot get a piece of the pie because it can only engage in fixed-line business.

At this time, Wu Ying, a Chinese student who had worked at the famous Bell Labs in the United States, saw a business opportunity to cut in, and he introduced a wireless technology called mobile local telephone called by the Japanese to China.

This technology can provide wireless communication services in the form of wireless access using existing fixed telephone networks.

Its biggest weakness is that the signal is very poor, and sometimes it is not even easy to listen in the house, so in Benji Japan, it is a marginal technology that has been abandoned. However, in China, it has become a lifesaver for China Telecom, because with this technology, it can enter the mobile telecommunications market. The high cost of call services of the two major mobile service providers undoubtedly provides a huge profit space for China Telecom's entry.

Wu Ying's Liver Starcom Company became the equipment supplier for the project, and he named the phone PHS. December 1997. The first PHS wireless local call pilot was opened in Yuhang City, Xijiang Province.

Local consumers were told that the call fee of PHS is two cents for three minutes, while the Lang mobile phone of China Mobile or China Unicom is five cents a minute, and the price difference is 7.5 times.

In just three months, the number of PHS users in Yuhang caught up with the sum of China Mobile and Unicom users, and PHS soon became popular throughout Xijiang, and was quickly regarded by China Telecom as the only magic weapon to share mobile services.

A marginal technology has unexpectedly sparked a telecommunications war between monopolies in China, with China Telecom simultaneously promoting Lingtong in hundreds of cities across the country, while mobile service providers around the country are sniping at PHS's entry and urgently reporting to the Ministry of Information Industry.

The Ministry of Information Industry also felt a dilemma, and at one moment it announced that PHS was a backward technology and that it would restrict its exhibition nationwide, and at another time it announced that after investigation, PHS was a supplement and extension of the fixed telephone, and that China Telecom was conditionally allowed to engage in this business.

The most sensational news was born in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province this year, Lanzhou Telecom gave PHS a 6-character office number, but Lanzhou's China Mobile Company did not recognize this number without the approval of the Ministry of Information Industry, and refused to let it enter the mobile network.

Lanzhou Telecom, which has always been bullish, simply cut off the connection between the entire mobile network and the telecom fixed network. Hundreds of thousands of users were unable to contact their mobile phones and landlines for dozens of hours, resulting in a major accident that is ironic.

At present, except for a very few large cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. Lingtong business has been opened across the board, with more than 10 million users.

China Telecom's strong promotion of PHS. Naturally, the equipment supply Dakang has achieved amazing growthAfter the company went public in the United States, the company drew a perfect growth curve, and its performance exceeded Wall Street expectations, even during the Nasdaq stock crash. Its share price has also never fallen below $20. It is the best-performing Chinese stock, and Starcom's market capitalization exceeded 26 billion at its peak.

After Fan Wuxian returned to the capital, he heard people talk about this problem, probably for the strong launch of PHS are a little envious, dad Fan Heng also mentioned this matter during the meal, saying that the Ministry of Information Industry is in a dilemma, after all, the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are meat, and you are unlikely to let China Mobile and Unicom take advantage of all the good things, and let Telecom starve to death, right?

"Survival of the fittest" Fan Wuxian said, "the biggest problem at present, is no longer the problem, but the reason why the mobile cost is too high, it is precisely because of the high profit of mobile phone bills, so there is an internal demand for PHS to enter the Chinese market, once the cost is reduced, the backward technology is naturally no market, this is also an inevitable market self-choice."

"Is your brainstorming leaning towards the PHS network?" Fan Heng asked, he now takes his son's opinion very seriously.

"Always respect the choice of the market," Fan Wuxian did not say too clearly.

In fact, for this kind of thing, some people call it crooked grass, which means that this thing is small and ineffective, and it is not easy for ordinary people to pick it up. Always "hey" twice, and then now I can't hear what the other party is talking about, so I shout the word "grass" again.

Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, from the perspective of actual application of Dangfeng, PHS does have many problems.

The basic condition for its survival is the economy of phone bills. PHS uses the same rate as fixed telephones and implements one-way charging. Enjoy the convenience of a local mobile phone at the price of a landline. Of course, it can attract a lot of people. Moreover, PHS power consumption electromagnetic wave radiation pole does not have much radiation harm to the human body, and is loved by some special groups such as the elderly, pregnant women, and medical personnel.

Moreover, PHS consumes less power and has a long standby time. Charging once, the standby time can be up to ten days, saving the trouble of frequent charging, so there are indeed not a few people who use PHS, and there are even many people who are not very big for mobile phone business needs. I also replaced the mobile phone I used before with PHS. One is to save money, the other is to save trouble, and a little flaw is tolerable.

But overall, PHS is a product of a special period. It is also a helpless move by China Telecom and China Netcom because they do not have mobile licenses, but they have seized a large number of users for operators on the eve of Lun.

There are many disadvantages of PHS. There are few accessibility features. Short messages are currently only available between PHS, and many new stylish features such as Internet browsing and mobile games are not available. There is also poor network coverage, which is generally limited to urban use, poor signal, few base stations, poor calls in some parts of the city, and no calls in case of power outages.

If it is in the car, it is basically unusable, because once the car has passed forty kilometers. The call is intermittent, although Japan is still improving PHS technology, but after the introduction of this part of the country, it is basically no longer exhibited, which also causes the problem that the follow-up functions cannot keep up.

The most important point is that PHS cannot roam across the country like a mobile phone, so it can only be a supplement and extension of fixed lines, and there is always a considerable gap between it and mobile phones in terms of function.

Reborn in a past life. The cannon is not sick, and he has also used a little PHS. How to say it. As you say) singing in the song city, as soon as you enter the relatively closed environment, PHS will be completely incompatible, if it's okay, it's equivalent to automatic shutdown, if there is something, the impact is great, far less convenient insurance for mobile phones.

"Under the current conditions, the emergence of PHS from the perspective of cost performance has indeed allowed many people with poor spending power to find a way out." Fan Wuxian explained to his father Fan Heng, "Although it is a backward technology, but the technology provided by domestic mobile operators is actually relatively backward technology, not only backward, but also expensive, this extreme monopoly makes enterprises have no interest in in-depth research, and in the long run, the technical level of China Mobile Communications will be reduced to a very terrible level." From this aspect, the addition of PHS can, on the one hand, enable telecommunications to carve up a part of the mobile communication market without a mobile business license, and on the other hand, it can also pull down the high mobile phone communication costs, which is still very beneficial to reducing the degree of monopoly. Fan Heng nodded in agreement, "In fact, the people in the Ministry of Information Industry have more headaches, after all, they want them to break the monopoly of the industry." The risk to be taken is too great, and the effect is much better if the company itself flexes and tosses it there

Fan Wuxi is deeply ashamed of this, "In a high position, he doesn't want to make progress, he has decision-making power in his hands but he doesn't dare to use it, he knows that the harm of industry monopoly is great, but he wants to let it go, just want to mix his tenure and retire peacefully, and now there are too many such people in the high-level." ”

It stands to reason that the dim and ** leadership is the most beneficial for a big chaebol like Fan Wuxi, but although Fan Wuxian is a big chaebol. But the civilian experience in his previous life made him understand a lot of things, know the difficulties of ordinary people, and know how much pain these leaders bring to the people. Therefore, it is even more difficult for him to tolerate those who take high salaries and harm the rights and interests of citizens.

Fan Heng is also reluctant to talk about this matter at this time, after all, the role he can play is limited, "Why didn't your Fan Investment Group get involved in the PHS business?" I heard that the profit of this piece is not either."

Fan Wuxian shook his head and denied, "PHS is just a product of a transitional period, and it is congenitally deficient. Our Fan's Investment Group is still mainly engaged in the research and production of mobile phones, and now the price of the main components has dropped to an alarming level, our profits are very rich, and the scale of tens of billions of annual revenue is already very satisfactory. ”

Since the mobile phone research department of Fan's investment group has obtained the technical ability of the underlying new products, the cost of Fan's mobile phone has been greatly reduced, and the cost of a single ordinary mobile phone has been reduced to less than two hundred yuan, but the price is more than a thousand yuan, which can be said to be an absolute profiteering, especially the price advantage of high-end products is also reflected, and the sales of high-end mobile phones that are more suitable for the aesthetic concept of Chinese are very good, and the profits are even more amazing.

"In fact, to make money, is to make money for those who have money, once we give the rich to customize the mobile phone business launched, the cost of millions of dollars of mobile phones can be said to be in short supply, the annual sales revenue in this area, it is over billions of dollars." Thinking of this, Fan Wuxian couldn't help but say to his father Fan Heng with some emotion, "With the most advanced chips, coupled with the most exquisite craftsmanship level, coupled with valuable materials, the best mobile phone series we have created is not so much a commodity as a market-oriented work of art, and such products are naturally welcomed by the wealthy class at home and abroad." ”

"There are more and more rich people After hearing this, Fan Heng couldn't help but sigh.

"It should be said that the phenomenon of polarization is getting more and more serious," Fan replied, "Whether from a foreign point of view, or from a domestic point of view, now the phenomenon of polarization has intensified, the number of billionaires with a net worth of more than 10 billion US dollars is increasing, and the phenomenon of domestic embezzlement of state-owned assets is also increasing, this is a bloody era of wealth, on the premise of sacrificing the interests of the majority of people, countless new aristocratic classes are born every day." Fan Heng said with a frown.

In fact, Fan Heng himself felt a little depressed, yes, in the past few years, the country's wealth has indeed increased a lot, and the living standard of the people has indeed improved a lot, but from the perspective of the growth of per capita income level. Although many enterprises have completed the restructuring, the workers are often laid off as the objects of sacrifice, and at a very low cost, the leaders control the enterprises and become the new major shareholders, while the workers have all become migrant workers.

Fan Heng did not see such a reform as his ideal reform, and the result now seems to be more like a resource grabbing during the enclosure movement, only this time in the name of reform.

A lot of people, in a short period of time. Through the process of legal confirmation, the white wolf with empty gloves immediately possessed an astonishing amount of astronomical wealth, and many more people became penniless in this seemingly fair process. Even lost the source of livelihood and was forced to push into society and solve life problems on their own.

With such a huge contrast, even a high-level person like Fan Heng, who is in contact with the reform of state-owned enterprises every day, will feel worried.

But he was powerless to change all that. Because he is dealing with an extremely large interest group, which cannot be adapted by one person or a few people or even a group.

Even if Fan Wuxian can control so many enterprises, so much money, and so many assets, he is only a rich man with considerable influence, and if it comes to confronting this interest group head-on, it is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car.

In the face of pure interest disputes, any righteousness, morality, honesty and law are all

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In the face of all this, even Fan Wuxian and Fan Xiang, such characters who stand at the highest level of wealth and power and retain their conscience, can only shout crooked grass like those who use PHS!