In San Antonio, Texas, Eva left AT&T disappointed, and as soon as he got into his car, he ordered the driver to drive to the airport, and he didn't want to stop for a moment in this desolate state full of deserts.

This time, Eva came to AT&T to visit the top management of Yota Communications to promote Yota's second-generation mobile communication technology. Just a few months ago, Eva once again turned down AT&T's offer to invest, which also cast a shadow over the cooperation between the two companies.

The current Yota communication seems to be infinitely beautiful, but in fact, some crises have been vaguely exposed. Yota's second-generation mobile technology is unique in the world and can provide high-quality voice and data transmission services on a global scale, but its cost is so high that very few operators in the world are now willing to adopt such expensive infrastructure, and so far only Japanese operators have signed contracts. On the other hand, Yota Communications' old friend AT&T at the time of its rise cost tens of billions of dollars in the generation of technology they used, and it is almost impossible to adopt newer technology in the short term. Of course, it would be a different story if Yota Communications became AT&T's daughter-in-law.

It's not just YotaCommunications' mobile communications business that has been impacted, but YotaCommunications' network solutions have also been threatened by rival Cisco. Originally, in this battle, Yota Communications was the first to hold the technical advantage and the support of AT&T, which can be said to be firmly in the Diaoyutai, but because of the investment, the cooperation between Eva and AT&T in network technology is also not going well. Now it is said that the top management of Cisco has reached the city of San Antonio. The catty nature is self-evident.

In fact, the American Telegraph and Telephone Company has always wanted to be able to join the board of directors of Yota Communications, but Yota Communications really has too many secrets that cannot be said, so although the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is sincere, Eva has never relented. In fact, this kind of one-plus-one cooperation is greater than two, and Eva simply cannot agree to it.

On the way to the airport, a disheartened Eva took out her satellite phone and habitually dialed Seryosha's number, she wanted to have a good talk with Seryosha and vent the unhappiness in her heart. The phone didn't take long to get through, and Seryosha's voice quickly came from there.

"Seryosha, it seems impossible for us to cooperate with AT&T, and they have proposed that they will never purchase our second-generation mobile communication solutions unless they take a stake in Yota Communications." Eva said with a long sigh on the other side of the phone.

"Hey, that's a shame, we just don't have such a strong partner! But Eva, it doesn't matter, I'm going to take down the British telecom operators in a few days, and we can set up a European demonstration project for the second generation of mobile communications in the UK first. Seryosha comforted.

"That's not all our own company, it's not fun!" Eva wasn't going to let Seryosha spend a lot of money on her Yota newsletter, because it really didn't give her a sense of accomplishment.

"But Eva, I think we can change our thinking, it's too troublesome to communicate mobile communication networks in a country like this now! I wonder if we can build our own mobile communications network and throw AT&T aside? Seryosha asked thoughtfully.

"Seryosha, you know that it is infrastructure investment, not to mention the problem of funds, dinosaurs are afraid that North America alone will require nearly tens of billions of investment, and before the entire network is established, our service will definitely not be able to compete with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, because we cannot provide nationwide communication services, in addition to international telecommunications access, all of which require a large amount of investment as a support, you know, in the United States and even in the world, no one is the opponent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company!" Eva objected without even thinking about it, he didn't want Seryosha to let the money go to waste in order to make him happy.

"Is there really no one who is an opponent of AT&T? What are we talking to right now? Seryosha suddenly asked rhetorically.

"Satellite phone...... Seryosha I don't understand what you mean, do you want to buy Inmarsat? It's a non-profit organization, and there's no way they're going to accept our acquisition! Eva was prompted to think of NMAR-SAT, the operator of the satellite phone service, which stands for Inmarsat. This company uses GEO (Earth Forbidden Orbit Satellite) to provide global call services, but their service is too expensive, not only the call cost is as high as 3-7 US dollars per minute, the most important thing is that the satellite communication user terminal satellite phone is too expensive, basically the price ranges from 300000 to tens of thousands of dollars, so the private users of satellite phones have always been rich or expensive, and most of the users are from shipping companies for maritime communications. But this is not a company, but an international organization, which has made a lot of money in its own right, and is not short of money, and it is impossible to allow private acquisitions.

"Eva, I mean since we can't compete with AT&T on the ground, we're going to move the battlefield to space! It's like President Reagan's Star Wars! What do you think of us operating a global satellite communications network? Seryosha explained like Eva.

"This ...... How much money is needed, is it technically possible? Eva was frightened by Seryosha's plan, he never thought he could play like this.

"I've learned a little bit about this, but if you want to communicate on a global scale, you need about 77 satellites, which is the same number of electrons as the iridium atom. I think we just call this company Iridium? Seryosha said on the phone. In fact, he had not known about it before, but the failure of Iridium would be widely disseminated as a classic business failure in a few decades, so Seryosha was impressed by the plan that originated from Motorola. Moreover, Seryosha is a top student in the Department of Chemistry at Moscow University, how many electrons does iridium have, it is not just a matter of opening his mouth, as long as there are 77 satellites, then find someone to understand the cost of launch and development, and it will be clear how much investment is needed for the whole project, according to Seryosha's plan, the entire project should be about the same as the cost of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company using a generation of communication technology, but once the Iridium system is formally established, mobile communication will directly enter the era of global communications.