In September, although it was already autumn, the heat island effect made the weather in the capital still hot, and in the hall where hundreds of people gathered, even if the air conditioning was fully turned on, it could not stop the rolling heat wave, but at this moment, everyone seemed to have completely forgotten the rolling heat wave, holding their breath, and everyone's eyes were on the hands of Minister Wu of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

In Minister Wu's hand, he is holding a mobile phone that is smaller and more delicate than his big brother: Nokia 2110.

Yes, today is the day when the first experimental commercial GSM network of the Republic United Communications Company was officially opened, as long as this phone is dialed, it will become the first GSM digital mobile phone to be dialed in the mainland, this is a great achievement and an opportunity to show his face, for this reason, Lin Hongfei specially invited Minister Wu of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to personally "demonstrate": this opportunity, Lin Hongfei does not need to stand up and steal the limelight, and it is appropriate to hand over this opportunity to Minister Wu...... The relationship between Torin Hongfei and even CCTV sent reporters with cameras to conduct interviews.

"Huh?" Looking at this Nokia 2110 in his hand, Minister Wu asked Lin Hongfei with some surprise, "Mr. Lin, your Nokia is a little different, this operation interface is still Chinese?" ”

Yes, this Nokia 2110 is slightly different from the Nokia 2110 that Lin Hongfei handed him to "try" last month, although there is no change in appearance, but when the phone is activated from hibernation, Minister Wu was surprised to see a few Chinese characters on the mobile phone screen: United Communications.

The first time he saw Chinese characters on a mobile phone, Minister Wu was extremely shocked.

"Yes," Lin Hongfei explained with a smile, "This mobile phone was jointly developed by us and Nokia, and in view of the fact that most people in our country do not have high English proficiency, we have not only Chineseized the operating system." It is also implanted with the Chinese character paging standard of our company partner: Inspur Group, so that this mobile phone can not only make and receive calls, but also freely send Chinese and English text messages to each other between the two mobile phones. ”

In 90 years, Inspur Group developed the first Chinese character pager, and developed the world's first Chinese paging standard, this standard is also listed as the only designated Chinese paging standard by the state, after cooperating with Nokia, in the Nokia 2110 secondary development, in the Nokia operating system for sinicization and realization of two-way short message exchange capabilities at the same time, this standard has also been transplanted. This also means that the Nokia 2110 has become the world's first GSM mobile phone with a Chinese user interface, a Chinese phone book and the ability to send and receive SMS in Chinese and English.

"Not bad, Xiaolin, you are very attentive, with this Chinese operation interface, everyone can understand at a glance how this mobile phone should be operated," Minister Wu nodded approvingly. What does it mean that most people do not have a high level of English? It is clear that there are not many Chinese people in this era who understand English...... Even if you know English, how many of you can understand the technical vocabulary in it? …… The mobile phone was in Minister Wu's hands. It can only be used as a real "mobile" phone. If you want to record other people's contact information, you can only use notes in the phone book, which is very inconvenient, with this Chinese function, he can record some people's contact information directly on the mobile phone.

However, as the minister of posts and telecommunications, he was a little curious about the Chinese short message function that Lin Hongfei said. The instinct of the leader of the telecommunications industry told him that since Lin Hongfei mentioned this Chinese and English short message function, it means that this thing is not simple, "You have cooperation with the communication company and the Inspur Group?" This short message in English and Chinese is ......"

He just remembered it.

"It's not our Inspur Group. It is Guqi Provincial Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd., last month our Guqi Provincial Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was just approved by the Guqi Provincial Government and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to invest in Inspur Group, and is now one of the shareholders of Inspur Group. Lin Hongfei explained, "This Chinese and English short message function, it is like this, Nokia provides 2110 only has the function of receiving English text messages, in the eyes of many people, this function is a bit similar to a pager built into a mobile phone." ”

Minister Wu nodded, it is true, he thinks so too, but he is a little strange, what does this have to do with this Chinese and English short message function?

"I thought, hasn't our Inspur Group developed a Chinese character paging standard, can we transplant this standard to the mobile phone, so that this mobile phone can also receive Chinese text messages?"

"Not a bad idea," Minister Wu took the lead and said with great satisfaction, "If you can realize the Chinese SMS function, it is equivalent to saving consumers money to buy a Chinese character pager, it seems that you have succeeded." ”

"I'm ashamed to say it, in fact, the work is done by comrades, we just put forward an idea," Lin Hongfei said modestly, "and then I thought, the pager is a one-way receiving communication device, in terms of working principle, in fact, it is similar to the radio, so the congenital defect makes it can only receive short messages and can not send short messages, but the mobile phone is a two-way communication equipment, is it possible to achieve the function of being able to receive short messages and send end messages?" In addition, the cost of voice communication at this stage is not cheap, but some people call, in fact, to say something is twenty or thirty words, if this short message function can be realized, the cost is relatively low, wouldn't it be able to help customers save a lot of expenses? Thankfully, we were lucky to have succeeded. ”

"I see, that's the idea...... What price do you set for this SMS feature? Minister Wu nodded with a smile, but secretly woke up in his heart: Lin Hongfei is not only the chairman of the Republic United Communications Company, but also the leader of the largest automobile manufacturing enterprise in the Republic, so he should be polite to this kid.

"2 cents a piece, a maximum of 70 words." Lin Hongfei said the price of a bloody dog who would definitely be scolded in later generations.

But at this time, no one thought that the price set by Lin Hongfei was too expensive, on the contrary, Minister Wu frowned, feeling that this price ......, "Xiaolin, is it better to discuss this price?" ”

Just like Lin Hongfei said, in fact, many people call, and it is only twenty or thirty words to write down what they want to say, but now mobile communication is expensive, local calls cost more than a dollar, and long-distance is even more expensive, but since you get through the phone, you can't immediately get angry and talk about things directly, right? A few words of greeting are always required, so that at least one or two minutes will go down, and then talk a few words after finishing business, a phone call usually takes at least three minutes, with the current tariff standard, it is enough to make many people feel distressed.

"Yes, we also thought about this problem, at first we referred to the price of the paging service, set it at one dime each, and then considering the convenience of this relationship, we set the price at two cents again."

When Lin Hongfei said this, he felt a chill in his heart: In fact, many people suggested that Lin Hongfei set the price of this text message at one dollar, the reason is that although the charter price of the pager is not expensive, you have to call the pager first, and you will always have to pay for this phone bill, right? In order to make one thing clear, usually one minute is not enough, so it will be almost three dollars, let's only charge one dollar, and let the other party receive this text message in a timely manner, it is really cheap and unreasonable, 2 cents? That's a crazy price.

The surrounding crowd was also a chill: It's still 2 cents, otherwise what should the telecommunications bureau do?

The telecommunications bureau also has a mobile communication network, but their mobile phones do not have the function of sending and receiving short messages in Chinese.

Of course, they didn't take this single message function very seriously, and people who had not experienced the era of the big bang of short messages in later generations could not imagine how powerful this small short message could be.

"That's fine." Lin Hongfei's identity still makes Minister Wu scruples, since Lin Hongfei said so, he naturally can't say anything, it's just a text message, it's not worth discussing with Lin Hongfei here regardless of his identity...... But only a year later, Minister Wu regretted his decision a year ago, but that's all for later.

Speaking of this, Minister Wu looked at his watch: Well, it's almost time. Nodding, he glanced around majestically, and said, "Comrades, be quiet." ”

In fact, during this period, no one spoke at all, and everyone held their breath, but with Minister Wu's words, even the sound of breathing was quieter.

Nodding, Minister Wu was very satisfied with his "leadership majesty", took a deep breath under the gaze of everyone, and waited until a very respectful expression appeared on his face, and after the whole body and mind were adjusted, he finally pressed the number on his mobile phone that he had long been familiar with, and after a few seconds of waiting, Minister Wu spoke very respectfully, "Hello Prime Minister, I am the old Wu of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications...... Yes, we are testing this GSM digital mobile phone in the field, I am using this digital mobile phone to call you, is the signal clear? …… Oh oh, good good, well, good, it's okay, thank you...... It's good, see you again ......"

With a simple phone call, Minister Wu actually said that his head was sweating.

Hung up the phone and met everyone's expectant eyes, Minister Wu, who was cautious just now, immediately became the high-minded Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, and nodded reservedly, "Your Excellency Prime Minister said that the signal is very good, the voice is very clear, and the call quality is very good......

"......" A round of warm applause rang out like thunder.

Nodding with satisfaction, Minister Wu pressed his hands to the bottom, and when the crowd quieted down again, he said in high spirits, "I announce that the trial operation of the first commercial GSM digital mobile communication network of United Communications Company has been very successful!" (To be continued......)