Chapter 731 - Setting Standards
After Natsume Network got the opportunity to invest in ASN, the two sides were actually equivalent to a family, so ASN readily agreed to send a technical team to help Natsume build a network in Tokyo first, and at the same time, the network under ASN will be fully open to Natsume's network networking.
However, these costs are to be paid by Natsume.
In fact, none of the above conditions are the most important conditions, but the most important thing is actually the "World Internet Development Federation" jointly established by the two parties at the suggestion of Miss Haruko Natsume, the chairman of Natsume Co., Ltd.
At the suggestion of Haruko Natsume, the purpose of this federation was to standardize the various technical standards in the development of the Internet around the world.
For example, a series of network standards such as network cable interfaces, network data flow editing, port setting, switching protocols, etc., will be formulated by the development federation and then used as standards for the federation to promote the Internet.
Any country or company that tries to access the Internet, their equipment, etc., must comply with this standard, otherwise they will not be able to obtain the right to connect to the Internet.
Of course, as a purely commercial federation, only companies are welcome to participate, and companies from all over the world are welcome to join the federation, and all the standards in the federation are free for external use and do not charge any patent fees, so as to attract companies from all over the world to join the federation.
However, joining the federation only has the right to use it for free, but does not have the right to discuss and formulate future standards, and only those members of the federation who have the status of founders have the right to create standards.
Of course, only Natsume and ASN have the qualifications of the founders.
Of course, in the future, with the expansion of the federation and the participation of enterprises from most countries in the world, some founder qualifications will definitely be released.
But obviously, only companies in the world's rogue countries such as the P5 can obtain the qualification of founders by virtue of their strong markets, and other small countries, don't even think about it, unless you don't want to access the Internet, just watch it.
After hearing Natsume's suggestion, ASN immediately felt very good, because the previous Internet standard was set by an academic consortium, which was obviously not in the interests of commercial companies.
But if the standards are created entirely by this federation of completely commercial companies, then the power to set the standards will be firmly in the hands of the businessmen, which is naturally excellent.
At the same time, because the development of the Internet in the world actually depends on various commercial companies to operate, the right to formulate academic associations will soon disappear and cease to exist.
In fact, in 1995, the Internet Academic Federation was dissolved, and the entire Internet standard formulation power fell into the hands of the World Internet Development Federation, and at the same time, a founder qualification also fell into the hands of Natsume Corporation.
This is a qualification that you can't dream of in the previous life, whether it's China Mobile Unicom or Telecom!
Because this means that Boss Jia has the right to set and create Internet standards all over the world, which can be said to be one of the supreme rights in the future.
However, with the $100 million handed over to ASN, Boss Jia found himself in a very bad situation again, that is, Daqian had no money again.
Since October, Daqian has been in a state of all kinds of crazy money, first of all, the production of VCD, which has always been a huge gold-swallowing monster, which will consume hundreds of millions of dollars every month, so I thought of a pumping machine, and continued to draw blood from Daqian's body to drain all the cash flow.
In addition, Daqian's super group army plan was also a gold-swallowing cave, and when it was launched, it directly siphoned off nearly $500 million in Daqian's funds.
There is also the recently established Natsume, a company that Boss Jia quickly pulled up in order to seize the Internet, and it also consumed hundreds of millions of funds in one go.
So after paying 100 million US dollars, Boss Jia soon found out helplessly that Daqian's cash flow was empty again, and even the huge amount of 10 billion yuan borrowed from GS Bank had been spent completely.
Those outsiders' guesses about Daqian are not wrong, Daqian is really in a state of running out of ammunition and food, and the capital flow is about to collapse.
To tell the truth, Daqian is now running out of funds to hold its annual meeting in a month's time.
"We have to find a way to make money!" Boss Jia sat at his desk, rubbing his head with a headache. He thought of a lot of ways, but this time the money needed was too much, and ordinary methods simply couldn't get such a huge amount of money.
The only way to solve the problem quickly is to take a loan, but the problem is that now that Boss Jia has mortgaged his company, what else can he take to get loans from other banks.
Daqian seems to be really at the end of the mountain.
But at this time, Haruko Natsume found Boss Jia again, and Natsume's company was in big trouble.
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"NTT didn't agree to let us lease their phone line to start the internet service, they said it would require approval from the Ministry of Finance, but I applied to the Ministry of Finance, but the Ministry of Finance never gave me a reply!" Haruko Natsume found Boss Jia a little tired and said.
Although Natsume has seized the opportunity of network development and even became the second company in the world to commercialize network operation, the biggest cost of network operation is not in technology or equipment, but in the laying of network cables.
Although Natsume's company currently only plans to connect the network to the Tokyo area, even if it is only a Tokyo area, if Natsume lays the network cable by himself, the cost will be as high as hundreds of billions of yen, which is a huge amount of money that Natsume will definitely not be able to pay at present.
Not to mention that it is not cost-effective to lay the network cable now, not to mention the cost problem, the most important thing is that there is no mature network cable technology now, if the network communication line is specially laid now, then in the future, with the emergence of optical fiber lines, all the network cables that have been laid will be updated.
Rather than this, it is better to wait until the fiber optic line appears, and then throw away the telephone line and lay the fiber on your own.
Therefore, in the current state, if you can rent the existing telephone line network and directly connect the network signal in the telephone line, it is the most cost-effective way, because this saves a lot of money for laying network cables.
All of Tokyo's telephone lines are in the hands of NTT, or Fuso Telecommunications and Telephone Corporation, a state-owned company that has an undisputed dominance in the field of telephones, and 92% of the telephone lines in Fuso are in the hands of NTT, except for a few areas where telephone lines are laid by private telephone companies.
Natsume can only obtain the right to use NTT's telephone line if he reaches a cooperation with NTT, but Natsume has approached NTT several times in a row, hoping to reach a cooperation, but NTT has directly pushed it to the Ministry of Finance, which is in charge of them.
And the Ministry of Finance didn't even give Natsume any reply, which made Natsume about to have a nervous breakdown, if he couldn't even pass the phone line, then Natsume's network would have to close down directly.