Chapter 103: Best-selling campuses

Seryosha is a man of his word, and the $200,000 he promised to hand over to the Voronezh Institute of Communications Sciences will soon arrive, and the institute will immediately place an order with the factory, and after all the products have been produced and tested, Seryosha will go through the channels in his hands and deliver the goods to Italy as quickly as possible, and then to the United States through legal channels. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

When Eva received the product, it was already two weeks later. In order to promote the Yota system, Eva donated the products to her alma mater as an alumnus. With the approval of the school board, Yota Communications' world's first mobile base station was set up in an open space in the heart of the school.

Since there were only about 100 pagers in the first batch, Eva gave them all to her classmates in the medical school. After a period of training, the staff responsible for maintaining this system also began to take up their posts one after another, and the first step of Yota's communication system stumbled out.

Harvard University is the most expensive private school in the United States, and the annual tuition fee for each student is almost $60,000, and there are very few of them who rely on scholarships to study the entire college stage, otherwise Eva would not have risked her money on the battlefield to earn her tuition. As a result, many of the students at the world's most famous university are actually from the wealthy class of the United States.

A pager for less than $100 is not a luxury for many students here. Coupled with the fact that there are many female students in medical school, especially beautiful girls, the pager of Yota communication began to become popular on campus. So during this time, some people in the school began to try their best to get Yota pagers, and some even paid a high price for them. But almost no one is willing to sell their pagers. For nothing else, in addition to the convenience brought by the pager itself, the built-in Tetris also played a role, this kind of game is quick and easy to use, and almost everyone who plays this game for the first time loves it.

After another half a month, a cargo ship from Taiwan finally docked at the port of Boston, and the first batch of 20,000 Yota pagers produced in Taiwan were transported by truck from the port to Cambridge City. The first Yota experience and flagship store on the campus of Harvard University has also been built, and Harvard alumni, who have long been informed of the news, have been waiting at the door of the Yota flagship store almost since midnight, waiting for the pager to be released, which Eva definitely did not expect.

The cost of the products produced in Taiwan has been reduced by almost half, or about $45, and the profit margin for a single product has increased dramatically while the pricing remains the same. Although she is still a little troubled in school, Eva and her colleagues are very happy with the development.

When the doors of Yota's flagship store opened, long-awaited customers rushed into the store, and the scene inside the store was as hot as every Black Friday. But what these customers didn't expect was that there were two novelties in the store at this time, a wireless talking device called YotaPhone. However, the price is really expensive, as high as $800 a piece, which keeps many people out.

However, at present, YotaPhone cannot talk to landlines in schools, and can only talk to other YotaPhone users, which undoubtedly greatly reduces the usefulness of YotaPhone. However, this is not a technical problem, it is purely a commercial problem. Since most of the current landline subscribers are connected to AT& If you want to get through the communication between YotaPhone and these landlines, Eva will have to cooperate with these deep-pocketed operators, and it is difficult to impress with the current scale of the Yota system in Harvard University. T, so Eva's current strategy is still based on Yota pagers, after all, this kind of mobile instant text messaging function is not available in current phones.

It's still hard to digest 20,000 pagers just by relying on Harvard students, but it doesn't matter, Eva's eyes have long been set on another world-class university in the same city, that is, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a famous science and technology institution that gave birth to countless black technologies.

Following the example of Harvard University, Yota Communications' base stations soon covered the MIT campus as well. In order to develop users as soon as possible, Eva has specially opened an installment payment service. With a down payment of just $10, you can take home a brand new Yota pager, and the introduction of these policies directly led to the explosion of Yota pagers, and soon Yota Communications placed the next order with an OEM supplier in Taiwan.

The popularity of Yota pagers on the campuses of Harvard University and MIT soon spread to Boston University, which is only across the river from the two institutions. Although the signal only reached the other side of the river, it did not affect the use of some Boston University students who live on the north bank of the Charles River. As a result, many eager users even called to ask Yota to cover more areas as soon as possible.

At this time, Yota Communication's operating department also began to contribute a part of the company's revenue, and under Seryosha's guidance, Yota's operating department opened a series of paid value-added services, such as weather forecasts, news, party and real estate information, and even lost and found, second-hand goods trading and a series of information services close to students' lives. Even the teachers' notices about schoolwork began to be posted on the Yota system, and in this way, the first semi-commercial operation network of Yota Communications began to take root in the small city of Cambridge. However, at this time, Seryosha stopped Eva from expanding.

"Why stop, we're doing a good business now, and I'm confident that in a few months I'll have a Yota system covering the whole of Massachusetts!" Eva asked, puzzled.

"Don't be carried away by our current results, we can't get direct access to landlines right now, we can't get around these phone operators, and the money required to set up a Yota system with nationwide coverage is astronomical, the best way to do this is to work with a strong company such as AT& T such. Seryosha said calmly.