56. Telecommunications industry

Yanjing International Comic's funds are very abundant, Chen Yihua is not short of money in the early stage, for him the main cost in the early stage is the procurement of materials, fortunately, the manufacturing of pagers is very simple, the most expensive is the receiver and decoder, but the price is not expensive, there are no similar products now, the retail price of a pager in the early stage Chen Yihua can be sold for five or six hundred Hong Kong dollars. Excluding labor costs, there is still one-third of the profit.

Of course, this is still for the popular price of pagers in the early stage is so low, and when pagers become popular and technological innovation, Chen Yihua's price will be further increased until it exceeds 1,000.

Now the pager is still an analog BP machine, with the development of technology, there will be digital BP machine, Chinese BP machine→ mobile phone, MSN and other instant messaging tools, mode signal BP machine, the user can only accept the call signal, need to call the pager to query the callback number.

Digital BP machines are different, there will be manual service desks and automatic service desks, which can be rumored on the pager, or directly leave a phone number.

There is no technical content in the assembly of the pager, as long as Chen Yihua recruits someone from the United States to guide him, I believe that the product will be able to come out soon.

If Chen Yihua wants to make a pager industry, he must set up a telecommunications department in the early stage, have his own pager, build a base station and receiving terminal, so that the pager can be used only when it is sold.

Hong Kong now has a telephone company, but most of the shares of the Hong Kong telephone company are occupied by the British, and there is no pager industry on the market in Hong Kong, so there can be no relevant cases, Hong Kong's political axe for the telecommunications industry The threshold is certainly not high, unlike later generations, the telecommunications sector is to issue a license to the political axe, even if it is a Western capitalist society, it is very troublesome to apply.

Chen Yihua can take advantage of the gap in this period to set up a telecommunications company, implement the construction of management base stations, and the unified distribution of pager numbers, even if there are other pagers entering the Hong Kong market, they must seek the cooperation of Chen Yihua, a telecommunications company.

For this telecommunications company, as long as there is a store to handle everyone's network access business, the company can build a base station, have its own receiving terminal, of course, the pager at this stage mainly relies on manual service, there must be a lot of operators.

To tell the truth, Chen Yihua's establishment of a telecommunications company is completely taking advantage of the market gap, during this period of time the telecommunications industry is a period of no political axe management, Chen Yihua's company can fully operate, when his own telecommunications company occupies the market, Hong Kong's political axe in the introduction of policies must be too late, because Chen Yihua's company has begun to carry out number management, and there is definitely no way to take Chen Yihua. And it is to have more and more technical reserves for pagers, and Chen Yihua can develop chip technology by himself, so I believe that the first telecom company to eat crabs will not be so easy to be dealt with.

For Chen Yihua, this is a very profitable industry, you can continue to provide funds for yourself, can put yourself in a monopoly position, although the mobile phone industry in later generations is also a profiteering, but the technological innovation is too fast, if you don't pay attention to it will be eliminated, not like those telecommunications companies, sitting and waiting to collect money every month.

At present, the entry threshold of the telecommunications sector is low, even if the United States Big Brother and its technology application is still immature, the management of telephone numbers is not done with chips, but with microprocessors and decoders, as long as Chen Yihua's telecommunications company develops itself in this area in the future, taking advantage of the blank period in the market, it can completely occupy Hong Kong's telecommunications industry.

For how to carry out the early stage, Chen Yihua did not count on Motorola, he also asked Anna, who is still in the United States, to recruit people by herself, there are many American talents, there are also many overseas Chinese, if you want to recruit the telecommunications industry, as long as you can afford to pay the price, it is still very easy, after the New Year, Anna recruited the chief engineer from the United States for Chen Yihua.

Li Mianhua, 34 years old, overseas Chinese in the United States, radio expert, has worked in many telecommunications companies, also worked in Motorola, participated in a number of research and development work, was recruited by Anna through a headhunting company.

Zhang Youfang, 28 years old, software engineer, Fang Xuehua, female, 26 years old, graduated from Haval with a major in electronic engineering, and is an all-round talent.

Chen Yihua is looking for these people are all Chinese, the company does not need too many people in the early stage, Chen Yihua only needs a few talents, a few good people can play a leading role, other personnel can be slowly recruited from Hong Kong, the implementation of self-research and development, self-cultivation role, before they came, Chen Yihua prepared a place for a few people to live, and the wages and benefits for them were very high, so a few people will come.

On March 1, 1976, Far East Telecom Company was quietly established, with Chen Yihua personally accounting for 30% of the company's shares, Nanchao Chen Investment Fund accounting for 40%, and Seedling Fund accounting for 30%. The general manager of the company is Liu Yiyi, the sales manager of Yanjing International Comics.

To be honest, Chen Yihua is very satisfied with this woman, although she does not look very strong on the surface, she is beautiful, but in the process of Yanjing's entry into overseas, she played a very important role, when Chen Yihua transferred people from Yanjing, Xu Yuying did not agree, it was the two of them who solicited their opinions together, and Xu Yuying released her.

In fact, Liu Yiyi listened to Chen Yihua's suggestion, and was not very willing to leave Yanjing at the beginning, Yanjing is now in the expansion period, she has her own position here, it is Chen Yihua who gave her the position of general manager, and guaranteed the company's investment, and probably said the company's plan, Liu Yiyi was ambitious and finally agreed.

For the IT industry, few people in Hong Kong can clearly understand it now, Liu Yiyi is also at a loss for it, Chen Yihua will definitely guide some time ago, I believe that as long as the direction is established and the operation is familiar, it is easy for a smart girl like Liu Yiyi to get started.

Some other managers of the company are also recruited from Yanjing, maybe Yanjing will be a little tight for a while, but its original hematopoietic function is not weak, just borrowed some financial department and logistics personnel, because the telecommunications industry is mostly women, so Chen Yihua will send a female surname as the general manager in the early stage, mainly because he is afraid that something dirty will happen to the company.

Far East Telecom Company in Kowloon generation, is the center of Hong Kong, paging terminal reception in the head office, the company's headquarters is now used as a paging station, so the space must be large, after all, the early development of pagers are dependent on manual services, so Chen Yihua this time rented a small 12-storey Reading Building, because Chen Yihua is a full rent, the rent is very cheap, a year's rent is only 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Telecom companies must have a store department, which can be used to sell pagers or handle customer access and payment services, of course, pagers are not popular now, and there is no need to open many stores, at this stage, the stores are only open in some places where foreign companies are concentrated, such as Victoria, Central, and Hong Kong.

The personnel of the paging station and the sales department of the store are recruiting female staff in the early stage, and the telecommunications company also needs a technical department, and the construction and maintenance of the base station must need technical personnel.

The equipment of the base station, as well as the equipment that receives the terminal, is shipped to Hong Kong, in fact, without the guidance of Motorola's people, Li Mianhua can lead people to do it, but he is slow alone.

In mid-March, the construction of peripheral base stations is very fast, because Chen Yihua's funds are sufficient, five base stations have been built, and now wireless communication is not very mature, if you want to cover the whole of Hong Kong, you need about thirteen peripheral receiving base stations, the construction of receiving terminals is not so fast, mainly to debug, you must connect the peripheral base stations.

On March 16, Tianyi Company was established, mainly a plant, assembling pagers, producing their own products Tianyi pagers, the company recruited technical personnel in the early stage, hoping to develop itself in the future, the company is now just a factory, Chen Yihua let the deputy director of Yanjing Comic Publishing House come to manage, mainly to do some coordination work, and do not need specific management, Chen Yihua will definitely find another dry sales to manage this company, the main core of the company is the R & D team led by Li Mianhua.

Now Tianyi Company and Far East Telecom's technical talents are cross-used, and will not be separated from each other, and when these two companies are slowly on the track, Chen Yihua will completely divide them, after all, he is still short of talents.

Chen Yihua of Tianyi Company will not account for personal shares, 70% of the shares of Nanchao Chen, 30% of the seedling fund, and Chen Yihua of Far East Telecom accounts for so many personal shares, that is because with the expansion of Far East Telecom, Chen Yihua's personal shares will be slowly diluted, after all, if the telecommunications industry wants to become stronger and bigger in the future, it is necessary to find partners and find some strong families to cooperate.

The supporting equipment and materials of the pager were shipped from the United States before the establishment of the company, and Chen Yihua hurriedly registered the company when he saw that the company's personnel had almost been recruited.

The assembly of the pager is very simple, Li Mianhua did not take long, it only took one day to assemble several, the pager is different from Apple's personal computer, after all, the pager is now a mature product, Chen Yihua's parts are not lacking, the pager assembly is just a little longer in the debugging decoder and receiver, the number of each pager is different, these numbers are stored in the decoder, so when assembling, you must debug it first.

On 18 March, after Li Mianhua and his assemble pager was debugged, the communication was very smooth, and the results of the test were very successful; on this day, the first pager in Hong Kong could be officially communicated, and the communication of the pager was normal, and there were no technical problems.

On March 19, Far Eastern Telecom's first store was quietly opened in Central, which has not yet been officially opened, but only for personnel training.

Long before the establishment of the company, Chen Yihua bought a few Apple computers from the United States, recruited a few female employees who could speak English, and stored all the number management and some information in the computers.

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