In the United States, Motorola is working on plans to produce text BB.

An executive named Randy Rossetti enthused, "Since the launch of the Word BB by Borderless Communications, sales have skyrocketed, and we should increase our production capacity to fully produce the Motorola Text BB machine!! ”

"Randy Rossetti is right, the text BB machine is popular all over the world, especially in developing countries, and the sales are extremely amazing. This cake, we Motorola must hurry up and grab it! One executive chimed in.

At the meeting, everyone unanimously decided to increase investment and increase the production capacity of BB machines.

For the next period of time, the Motorola factory worked overtime frantically, preparing to stock up on a large number of text BB machines.

Around the world, other BB machine manufacturers are similar to this.

A fierce battle for BB machine competition is about to start.

However, it is clear that they are going to be hammered again.

Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd. will soon launch a two-way text BB machine, which can send text messages directly between BB machines.

The major BB machine manufacturers are afraid that they will be severely pitted by the Wujiang Group again.

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"Mr. Zhao, we contacted an insurance company in the United States, and they have a Houston communication satellite in their hands, and the price is relatively cheap!"

"This satellite is called the Westa6 geostationary orbit communications satellite. In February 1984, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger carried the satellite into space along with another Indonesian PalapaB2 satellite. However, after the two satellites separated from the space shuttle, the perigee engines on the satellites did not ignite as planned, so they failed to enter the scheduled orbit, and the satellites failed to be launched. ”

However, the insurer that underwrote the satellite launch took ownership of the two satellites after paying the insurance premium for the failed satellite launch. After accounting for the associated costs, the insurer decided that it would be economically cost-effective to recycle the two satellites. As a result, the insurance company commissioned Hughes Aircraft Company and NASA to jointly complete the recovery mission of the satellite. ”

Liao Xinghua, an executive of CITIC Group, suddenly called and introduced Zhao Ye.

He also serves as the General Manager of Asia Satellite Corporation.

When Zhao Ye heard this, he immediately understood.

Come to think of it, this Westa6 communication satellite is the "Asia-1" communication satellite in the previous life.

On April 7, 1990, China's Long March-3 rocket successfully launched the Asia-1 satellite, which ushered in a new era of satellite communication and broadcasting in Asia.

The Asia-1 satellite is the first commercial communication satellite in Asia, which is of great significance. As far as China is concerned, Asia-1 is also a pioneer in securing valuable satellite orbit resources for China, and elevates national sovereign interests to the level of space.

Why do you want to seize satellite orbit resources?

This is because the international satellite communications community and the United Nations and other agencies are currently pursuing the principle of who owns the low-orbit resources in space, and who owns the resources in the low orbit of space.

Fortunately, there are very few countries or companies that have the ability to launch satellites. Therefore, the situation of low-orbit space resources staking has not yet happened. However, the competition for staking in the future will become extremely fierce. If we lose our low-orbit resources, it will be as serious and problematic as the loss of territorial waters and access to the sea.

The whole country will be encircled in low-orbit space. At that time, renting other people's resources is sky-high.

In the previous life, the Earth's low-orbit resources were only valuable resources of the order of 50,000 satellites. Musk plans to launch 42,000 of them, and he will do it within five years, be a good person, if you have to occupy so many in one company, how can others play......

At present, ATV's use of the "Asia-1" communication satellite is completely sufficient. This satellite alone is enough to cover most of Asia.

Moreover, it was not until April 2003 that the Asia-1 satellite successfully completed its historical mission and was honorably decommissioned.

Zhao Ye quickly communicated with Liao Xinghua, and the Asia Satellite Company came out to purchase the Westa6 communication satellite from an American insurer, and then renamed it the "Asia 1" communication satellite. The relevant technical parameters of the satellite have also been readjusted and updated according to the requirements of covering the Asian region.

After Liao Xinghua successfully communicated with Zhao Ye, he immediately flew to the United States to purchase the Westa6 satellite from the insurer.

Although it is a second-hand communication satellite, the price is not cheap, asking for $20 million.

It is expected that Liao Xinghua will talk to the other party for a long time.

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Zhao Ye was also speechless for the lion of the insurer.

Just this second-hand satellite, it was actually sold for 20 million US dollars, killing people.

It's a pity that China can't build such an advanced satellite, otherwise why buy it from the Americans.

That said, the cost of launching satellites is also very expensive.

Currently, rockets cannot be recycled and are disposable, so the launch cost is high.

Fortunately, China's rocket technology is still relatively advanced, and the launch cost is very low, and many countries or enterprises have asked China to help launch satellites.

"China's satellite technology is relatively backward, and it seems that it is necessary to poach space technology developers in the USSR. It's 1988 now, and in the next two years, we have to speed up the penetration and use the 'money' ability to get what we want! Zhao Ye muttered to himself.

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At the beginning of June, Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd. announced that it would hold a product launch conference on June 10.

The news immediately caused a sensation in the industry and caused a lot of speculation.

Borderless has always been the vane of technology products, so this conference has attracted a lot of attention.

"What products will Wujiang Telecom Technology release? Could it be a mobile phone? After all, Motorola's mobile phone business is very profitable, and there is no reason why Boundless should not enter this market! ”

"Indeed, since the name of Wujiang Communication Technology Company contains the word 'communication', it is likely that Wujiang will develop products related to mobile phones! The text BB machine was released before, and now it's time to release the mobile phone! ”

“……”

Many people speculate that Borderless Communications is about to release a mobile phone, and they are quite looking forward to it.

However, I never expected that after Lu Jia came to power, he introduced and showed them the two-way text BB machine.

The two-way text BB machine is only a little larger than the one-way BB machine, but it is a wide screen, which is convenient for typing and reading.

When typing, a tiny virtual keyboard will be displayed on the screen, and the user will use the Pinyin input method to type and select letters by manipulating the arrow keys.

The guests in the audience looked at this large-screen BB machine and were slightly surprised.

Even if the time and date are displayed on it, there are more new features, as well as notepads, BB account books, phone books, task lists, alarm clocks, and ......

Everyone was shocked and a little dumbfounded.

Several foreigners looked flustered, as if they were representatives of "friends and businessmen".

The Imagine two-way BB machine is so awesome, can their company's BB machine still be sold?

It's incredibly powerful, and it can also send text messages to all other BB machines on the market.

If both users' BB machines are Imagine two-way text BB machines, then the instant chat function can almost be realized.

The world's first text message was sent from a personal computer to the phone of Vodafone High Management Chad Jarvis in 1992 by British engineer Neil Papworth.

So, now text messages or something, wood has~

The two-way Imagine text BB machine is much more advanced than the previous one-way BB machine, and the one-way BB machine can only passively receive messages, and if you want to actively contact the other party, you have to find a phone booth and call the other party.

It's just too much trouble.

Therefore, when the mobile phone does not have the SMS function, the emergence of the two-way BB machine is undoubtedly amazing and likeable.

"Mr. Lu, what is the price of the Imagine two-way BB machine!!

At this time, someone in the audience really couldn't help liking it in their hearts, and stood up and asked Lu Jia loudly.

Lu Jia was slightly stunned, glanced at the young man, and said with a smile: "The domestic price is 2,500 yuan, and the foreign price is 1,399 US dollars!" ”

Hearing this, the audience couldn't help but exclaim, this price is not expensive, the price of the Imagine one-way text BB machine is only 2000 yuan, and the two-way BB machine is only 500 yuan more expensive than the one-way BB machine.

Lu Jia saw that everyone in the audience was extremely excited, he smiled slightly, the price is low, and it is also for "small profits and quick turnover", one only earned about 2,200 yuan, which is really not much......

Of course, if you are abroad, you will earn more "100 million".

At the end of this year, PHS may first conduct trial operation in a certain city, and the price of a PHS is about 5,000 yuan, which is five or six times cheaper than tens of thousands of Motorola mobile phones. Moreover, the service fee of PHS is also very cheap, and the specific amount depends on how the post and telecommunications bureau arranges, which will not be too expensive anyway.

On the day of the end of the product launch of Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd., the news that two-way BB machines can send text messages to each other spread.

BB machine is the most trendy product nowadays, and the birth of two-way BB machine has naturally aroused heated discussions among the whole people.

At this time, whoever can buy an Imagine two-way BB machine is the most beautiful boy in this era.

Of course, if you can come up with a "big brother", you can't be a pretty boy, just be a big guy.

The two-way BB machine is only 500 yuan more expensive than the one-way BB machine, but the difference in function is too great, and many people grit their teeth and want to buy a two-way BB machine.

Since the launch of the Imagine two-way BB machine, the sales of the Imagine one-way text BB machine have dropped sharply, and other brands of BB machines are directly unsalable.

In order to support two-way BB machines, major paging stations around the world have purchased program-controlled switches and other equipment from Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd., and built base stations.

This also makes Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd. not only sell BB machines, but also Wujiang program-controlled switches and other equipment products have also sold well, and this time it has made a lot of money.

As we all know, the full name of the program-controlled switch is the program-controlled telephone exchange, which means the programmable control of the telephone exchange.

The emergence of the boundless program-controlled switch, to be precise, is the emergence of the 10,000-door digital program-controlled switch, which further fills the gap of the domestic 10,000-door program-controlled switch.

Before 1990, China's program-controlled switch market was monopolized by seven countries and eight types of products, known as "seven countries and eight systems". From the rural dialect to the national backbone telephone network, no one has been spared.

The monopoly has caused the price of program-controlled switches to be very expensive, which directly affects the price of installing telephones. At that time, the initial installation fee of about 5,000 yuan was required to install the phone.

Previously, foreign 10,000-door program-controlled switches were sold for millions of units.

The Boundless 10,000-door program-controlled switch is very cheap, one million units, but the quality and performance are not worse than those of foreign countries.

As a result, the Borderless program-controlled switch quickly became the preferred product for domestic procurement.

"Wujiang is really powerful, and quietly held back the big move, our post and telecommunications bureau technicians said that the technology of Wujiang program-controlled switch is very advanced, more powerful than foreign ones! But the price is much cheaper than foreign program-controlled switches! Jiang Wenshu, director of the Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau, said to Lu Jia, general manager of Wujiang Communication Technology Company, with a smile.

"Director Jiang has won the award, but our company has indeed invested heavily in research and development, so we can come up with a program-controlled switch that is not weaker than the first-class level of foreign countries!" Lu Jia said.

"There is a result only if you pay, Mr. Lu, I have good news to tell you. The State Administration of Posts and Telecommunications of Beiping plans to purchase 50 Wujiang program-controlled switches from Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd. ”

When Lu Jia heard this, he couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised.

The purchase of the Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau affects the promotion of the boundless program-controlled switchboard.

The Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau is not said to be a domestic weather vane, but at least most of the post and telecommunications bureaus will still be on par with the Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

Even the Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau has purchased borderless program-controlled switches on a large scale, so why don't you hurry up and learn from the Post and Telecommunications Bureau in this small place?

In addition to Beiping, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Qingdao and other places where Wujiang has invested too much, the local government will basically purchase Wujiang program-controlled switches on a large scale.

If you don't support Wujiang products, do you still want Wujiang Group's investment?

Wujiang takes the order certificates of Beiping, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other big cities, and then goes to other cities to develop the market of program-controlled switches, it becomes easy. In addition, the name of the Wujiang brand is already well-known in China, and the major post and telecommunications bureaus have also trusted the Wujiang Group, so the sales process can be described as extremely smooth.

At the beginning of the rise of Huawei, foreign giants Ericsson and Motorola almost monopolized the entire program-controlled switch market, because the technology of Huawei's self-developed switches is not as good as foreign products, so it can not compete in big cities, so it can only find another way, bypassing the competition in big cities, and turning to "rural areas surrounding cities".

Of course, Huawei's strategy proved to be quite successful.

However, the boundless program-controlled switch does not need to do what Huawei does, but directly kills the foreign competitors in the big cities!

Yes, just kill them!

Regardless of quality, technology, or price, foreign program-controlled switches have no advantages.

In the long run, foreign switch manufacturers will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and finally have to choose to give up the Chinese market.

Of course, Wujiang Group will not let go of the rural market, and since Huawei has made a success in the rural market, it shows that the rural market is huge and worthy of Wujiang's attention.

60-, 80-, 120-, and 1000-door program-controlled switches have been developed, which are suitable for rural areas and townships.

At this time, in many rural areas, you can see the figure of pushing people without borders.

However, they mainly went to the local post and telecommunications office, and had relatively little contact with the people, let alone painted advertisements on the walls.

Fu Junmin is a member of the Borderless Rural Land Push Team.

This month, he has won orders for program-controlled switches in ten villages, and each order can bring him some business rewards, and this month's bonus alone is more than 1,000 yuan, which is higher than his salary.

is also a local push staff, many people envy Fu Junmin for being able to be a ground push staff of Wujiang Group, unlike them, the ground push staff of health care product companies, the salary is low and not to mention, and there will be certain risks, for example, sometimes they will fight with other health care product ground push personnel to grab advertising space on the rural wall.

In the eighties and nineties, nutraceuticals were extremely popular in China.

A company that sells three strains of oral liquid can dry sales to 8 billion yuan.

You know, 8 billion yuan at this time is very exaggerated.

In the previous life, Sitong Group, China's No. 1 IT company, had sales of just over one billion yuan.

Fu Junmin carried a bag and walked into the countryside.

Advertisements for all kinds of paint can be seen everywhere on the walls of houses in the countryside.

"When the sun rises, our love lasts forever - Helios Oral Liquid!"

"Replenish brain nutrition, promote bone growth, and improve memory - Life No. 1!"

"Three strains of oral liquid cures all diseases"

"Three strains of oral liquid, gastrointestinal nemesis"

"If you are sick, please drink three strains of oral liquid"

"Three strains of oral liquid for the benefit of mankind" ......

Fu Junmin has walked to so many rural areas, and what he admires most is the "three strains of oral liquid", which can be seen everywhere are advertisements for three strains of oral liquid.

After seeing too many advertisements, Fu Junmin couldn't help but buy "three strains of oral liquid" for his family.

He sometimes thinks that the combat effectiveness of the pushers can be half of the combat effectiveness of the "three strains of oral liquid", and perhaps the sales of the group company's products will skyrocket.

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Internationally, with the launch of two-way BB machines and borderless program-controlled switches, "Borderless" has once again become famous.

With the SMS function, the two-way BB machine is popular all over the world.

Motorola is very sad and has produced a large number of one-way BB machines, but now they are unsalable. Only by dealing with it at a low price can it be sold.

This wave cost Motorola a lot.

Anthony, President of Motorola, sighed: "Since the birth of the Imagine two-way BB machine, the price of BB machines of major brands around the world has fallen off a cliff. At the moment, we can only go to the market with us, and quickly dispose of this batch of goods at a low price. From now on, Motorola completely abandoned the BB phone business and focused on the development of mobile phones. As long as mobile phones are developed, sooner or later BB machines will be eliminated! ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone unanimously agreed.

Wujiang Group has been ahead of other companies in the BB machine market, other manufacturers have been imitating and being cheated, and the executives of Motorola have been afraid.

When Wujiang launched the digital BB machine, everyone rushed to imitate, and when they were able to produce the digital BB machine, they released the text BB machine, and when they were able to produce the text BB machine, they released the two-way text BB machine.

If you are tired and don't imitate it, the Borderless Group is simply a devil, too good at torturing people......

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At this time, with the advantage of high quality and low price, Wujiang program-controlled switch also easily opened the door to the overseas telecommunications market.

Giants such as Ericsson and Motorola are like great enemies.

However, the advantages of Wujiang program-controlled switches are too great, and many telecom companies are willing to take the initiative to cooperate with Wujiang communication technology companies. Who is going to have trouble with money?

"Boss, when the Hong Kong Telephone Company purchased the Wujiang Program-controlled Exchange, it took the initiative to reveal to our company that the Great Eastern Telegraph Bureau from the United Kingdom was acquiring the Hong Kong Telephone Company, and asked us if the Wujiang Group was interested in the Hong Kong Telephone Company......"

As the saying goes, the sandpiper and the clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman.

Since Wujiang Group is involved in the field of communication technology, it is bound to be interested in Hong Kong Telephone Company.

HKTC's executives and shareholders preferred to sell the company to Borderless rather than Dadong Telegraph.

On the one hand, it is rich and has influence in Hong Kong, which can promote the development of Hong Kong Telephone Company in Hong Kong.

At this time, Zhao Ye finally realized what it means to be rich, and good projects will be automatically sent to the door.

Of course, Zhao Ye was very interested in the Hong Kong Telephone Company, and not only that, but he was also interested in Dadong Telegraph Company (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.

In the previous life, Cable & Cable acquired the Hong Kong Telephone Company and integrated the Telephone Company and Cable & Cable Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited into Hong Kong Telecommunications Limited.

Unfortunately, in the end, the company was bought by Li Jiacheng's youngest son. This is not just a "snake swallowing an elephant", but the other party did it.

At that time, Pacific Century Digital was only a small-scale information technology and real estate company, but due to the serious technology bubble at that time, the market value of Pacific Century Digital was still quite high, and Li Jiacheng's youngest son showed his father's name and endorsed him, and then he did not need to spend any hair, and successfully acquired Hong Kong Telecom Company with a huge loan of $11 billion provided by a syndicate led by Bank of China. Although there are some other reasons for this, such as the Chinese side does not allow Singapore Telecom to buy Hong Kong Telecom, so it can only choose one of the Hong Kong people, Li Jiacheng's youngest son has a strong enough background, so he succeeded.

Hehehe, this world-class beauty is really enviable.

Soon after, Pacific Century Digital became the largest company in Hong Kong, providing integrated telecommunications services such as fixed network, cordless telephone and Internet, as well as developing real estate, with a market value of more than HK$250 billion.

Even after 20 years, Hong Kong Telecom still firmly holds the throne of Hong Kong's largest fixed-line telecommunications provider, and Li Jiacheng's youngest son's PCCW receives a dividend of HK$2.8 billion a year from Hong Kong Telecom.

Zhao Ye's expression moved, and he immediately instructed his secretary Liu Yinyin: "Inform Zhou Anping that I want to acquire the Hong Kong Telephone Company and Dadong Telegraph Company (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., and let Galaxy Financial Company be fully responsible for the acquisition plan!" ”

"Okay, boss!" Liu Yinyin responded and immediately went to contact Zhou Anping.

Not much.

When Zhou Anping received the notice, he was shocked, and his mind was full of thoughts, thinking about how to acquire these two companies.

Zhao Ye thought more at this time, after the merger of the Hong Kong Telephone Company and the Great Eastern Telegraph Company (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. into the Hong Kong Telecommunications Company, he would be able to take charge of the Hong Kong telecommunications industry. The most important thing for Borderless is that it can be used to research, experiment and promote new communication technologies, such as CDMA.

Demonstrate in Hong Kong before we can market the CDMA to other regions.

In addition, the acquisition of Hong Kong Telecommunications Corporation has huge benefits, and there is no reason why there is a good opportunity now, but not to seize it.

The acquisition of Hong Kong Telecom Company can't help but remind Zhao Ye of Li Jiacheng.

Compared with his son "snake swallowing elephant", Li Jiacheng's "sky-high price selling oranges" is more clever.

In 1989, Li Ka-shing bought a British telecommunications services company for HK$8.4 billion, but the business was not satisfactory. In 1990, Hutchison repackaged the business and changed the company's name to "Orange" to launch the GSM mobile phone service, which became a huge success and became the third largest mobile phone operator in the UK.

However, the position of the third child is very awkward.

In the business wars throughout the ages, it is not uncommon for the boss and the second boss to fight, and finally kill the third child.

In 1999, as the technology bubble blew up, Germany's Mannesmann and Britain's Vodafone began to compete for the position of Europe's largest telecom operator, and Orange became a key link.

This largest capital operation in the history of telecommunications, the game between Britain and Germany in Europe, has allowed Hong Kong's Li Jiacheng to earn more than 160 billion yuan, far exceeding his investment.

Zhao Ye felt that he could stage a story of "selling oranges at sky-high prices".

At this time, the economy of Britain was sluggish and it was burdened with heavy debts. The British telecommunications services company has not yet transitioned to GSM, and its business is not ideal.

Therefore, it is easier to go to the UK to acquire the British telecommunications services company with assets of only HK$8.4 billion than to acquire the Hong Kong telecommunications company.

Zhao Ye groaned slightly, contacted Rex Aiden, and instructed him to go to the United Kingdom to acquire the British telecommunications company.

After arranging these, Zhao Ye closed his eyes and secretly thought about whether there was a problem with his decision-making.

With the current financial resources of Wujiang Group, it is fully capable of acquiring and developing Hong Kong Telecom and British Telecom Service Companies.

If the British telecommunications service company had deployed GSM in 1988, it would have developed even faster than in the previous life. When "selling oranges at sky-high prices", it means that the price may be higher.

Zhao Ye actually does not plan to let Wujiang Group enter the traditional telecom operation industry in a big way.

The water is too deep to have a government background, so it is difficult to do it, at most to buy Hong Kong telecommunications companies to demonstrate and promote CDMA technology.

He wants to learn from Musk, and when the time is ripe in the future, he will launch the "Starlink Project" and launch his mother's 42,000 satellites to form a space Internet.

This investment, in fact, is only 40 to 50 billion US dollars, which is more cost-effective than investing tens of trillions of yuan to build 5G, and Internet services can be enjoyed anywhere in the world.

Zhao Ye pondered that SpaceX could be established in Hong Kong to develop rockets and satellites, and eventually realize the sea launch rocket program.

Sea launch rockets have been proven successful in previous lives.

In 1995, Boeing of the United States, Aker of Norway, KB Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash of Ukraine and Energia Rocket of Russia jointly funded the formation of Sea Launch.

China later launched its first sea-based rocket in the Yellow Sea, securing more than a billion dollars in commercial launch service orders.

There is a natural reason why rocket launch companies in various countries want to develop sea launch technology.

Since the equatorial region has the highest linear rotation speed of the earth at 465.1 m/s, the closer the satellite is launched to the equator, the better the power of the earth's rotation can be used, and the take-off weight of the rocket can even be reduced by 28%, which increases the carrying capacity of the rocket and reduces the launch cost.

When launching synchronous orbit satellites with small inclination angles, launching in the sea area near the equator can avoid the orbital plane change when the satellite orbit is transferred, and significantly improve the rocket carrying capacity and satellite life in orbit. All this shows that the launch of rockets at sea has certain economic advantages.

However, there is another important factor and difference, if you start by land, there is a territory of the country, and you can't launch it to other countries. Even if you want to launch in other countries, you need to reach a consensus with other countries. However, in the case of ocean launches, because they are in the open ocean, theoretically any country's rocket launch can be moved to any area, as long as it is on the high seas, so this is the biggest advantage.

Zhao Ye got up, poured himself a glass of water, slowly paced to the floor-to-ceiling window, and muttered: "If you establish SpaceX Space Exploration Technology Company now, I'm afraid that sea launch rocket technology will require years of technological accumulation before it can make a breakthrough." However, I can afford to wait, once the Sea Launch rocket is successful, then the SpaceX Sky Exploration Technology Company I have established will be even more awesome than Musk's SpaceX......"

After a pause, Zhao Ye said in a low voice: "Naturally, the cost of the Starlink plan will become even lower!" ”

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(End of chapter)