Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 167 Telecommunications and Starlink Project (7k)

In the United States, Motorola is developing a plan to produce text BB.

An executive named Randy Rossetti said excitedly: "Since Wujiang Communication Technology launched Text BB, sales have increased sharply. We should increase production capacity and fully produce Motorola Text BB!!!"

"Randy Rossetti is right. Text BB machines are popular all over the world, especially in developing countries, and the sales volume is extremely amazing. We Motorola must hurry up to grab this piece of cake!" echoed an executive.

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

In the next period of time, the Motorola factory worked overtime crazily and prepared to hoard a large number of text BB machines.

Around the world, other BB machine manufacturers are almost the same.

A fierce BB machine competition is about to start.

However, it was clear that they were going to be hammered again.

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

The major BB machine manufacturers are afraid that they will be ruthlessly cheated by Wujiang Group again.

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

"This satellite is called the Westa6 geostationary orbit communication satellite. In February 1984, the US 'Challenger' space shuttle carried the satellite into space together with another Indonesian PalapaB2 satellite. However, these two satellites were separated from space. After the plane, the perigee engines on the satellites did not ignite as scheduled, so none of them entered the scheduled orbit, and the satellite launch failed.”

"However, the insurer who underwrote the satellite launch took ownership of the two satellites after paying the insurance premium for the failure of the satellite launch. After accounting for the relevant costs, the insurer believes that it is economically cost-effective to recover the two satellites. Therefore, the insurance company entrusted Hughes Aircraft Company and NASA to jointly complete the satellite recovery mission."

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

At the same time, he also served as the general manager of Asia Satellite Corporation.

When Zhao Ye heard the words, he immediately understood.

Come to think of it, this Westa6 communication satellite is the "Asia No. [-]" communication satellite in the previous life.

On April 1990, 4, the Asia-7 satellite was successfully launched using the Chinese Long March [-] rocket, which ushered in a new era of satellite communication and broadcasting in Asia.

AsiaSat-[-] is the first commercial communication satellite in Asia, which is of great significance.As far as the country is concerned, "Asia One" is also a pioneer in fighting for China's precious satellite orbital resources, elevating the country's sovereign interests to the height of space.

Why do you want to seize satellite orbit resources?

Because the international satellite communication community and the United Nations and other agencies are currently pursuing the principle that whoever occupies the low-orbit space resources will own it, and whoever occupies it will always own it.

Fortunately, there are very few countries or companies capable of launching satellites.Therefore, the staking of low-orbit space resources has not yet happened.However, the competition to participate in the staking will become extremely fierce in the future.If the low-orbit resources in space are lost, then this will be as serious as the loss of territorial sea rights and access to the sea.

The entire country will be trapped in a low-orbit space encirclement.At that time, renting other people's resources is astronomical.

In the previous life, the earth's low-orbit resources were only valuable resources on the order of 5 satellites.Musk plans to launch 42000, and he will do it within five years. Be a good person. Since your company has so much, how can others play...

At present, ATV's use of the "Asia No. [-]" communication satellite is completely sufficient.This satellite alone is enough to cover most of Asia.

And it was not until April 2003 that the Asia-4 satellite would successfully complete its historical mission and be honorably retired.

Zhao Ye quickly communicated with Liao Xinghua, and Asia Satellite Company purchased the Westa6 communication satellite from an American insurer, and then renamed it "Asia-[-]" communication satellite.The relevant technical parameters of the satellite are also 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 an insurer.

Although it is a second-hand communication satellite, the price is not cheap, and the asking price is 2000 million US dollars.

It is expected that Liao Xinghua will have a long discussion with the other party.

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Zhao Ye was also speechless when he opened his mouth to the insurer's lion.

This second-hand satellite is actually sold for 2000 million U.S. dollars, what a rip-off.

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

In other words, the cost of launching satellites is also very expensive.

At present, rockets cannot be recovered and are all disposable, so the launch cost is very high.

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

"China's satellite technology is relatively backward. It seems that it is necessary to recruit aerospace technology developers in the Soviet Union. It is already 1988, and the next two years must speed up penetration and use the 'money' ability to get what you want! "Zhao Ye muttered to himself.

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In early June, Wujiang Communication Technology announced that it will hold a product launch event on June 6.

This news immediately caused a sensation in the industry and caused many speculations.

Wujiang has always been the vane of technological products, so this press conference has attracted a lot of attention.

"What product will Wujiang Communication Technology Company release? Will it be a mobile phone? After all, Motorola's mobile phone business is very profitable, and Wujiang has no reason not to enter this market!"

"Indeed, since the name of Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd. contains the word 'communication', there is a high probability that Wujiang will develop products related to mobile phones! It has released text BB machines before, and now it is time to release mobile phones!"

"..."

Many people speculate that Wujiang Communication Technology Company will soon release a mobile phone, and they are quite looking forward to it.

However, they never expected that after Lu Jia took the stage, he introduced and showed them a two-way text BB machine.

The size of the two-way text BB machine is only a little bigger 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. The user uses the pinyin input method to type, and selects letters by operating the direction keys.

The guests in the audience looked at this large-screen BB player, slightly surprised.

It doesn't matter if the time and date are displayed on it, but there are more new functions, such as notepad, BB machine account book, phone book, task list, alarm clock...

Everyone was shocked and dumbfounded.

Several foreigners looked flustered, and they seemed to be representatives of "friendly businessmen".

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

With so many functions, it is extremely powerful, and it can also send text messages to all other BB machines on the market.

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

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

So, now there are no text messages or anything~
The two-way Imagine text BB machine is much more advanced than the previous one-way BB machine. The one-way BB machine can only receive messages passively. If you want to actively contact the other party, you have to find a phone booth and call the other party.

This process is really too troublesome.

Therefore, when the mobile phone did not have the text message function, the appearance of the two-way BB machine undoubtedly made people feel amazing and liked.

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

At this time, someone in the audience couldn't bear the love in their hearts, and stood up and asked Lu Jia loudly.

Lu Jia was slightly taken aback, glanced at the young man, and said with a smile: "The domestic price is 2500 RMB, and the overseas price is 1399 US dollars!"

Hearing this, the audience couldn't help but exclaimed, the 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 very excited. He smiled slightly. The low price was also for "small profits but quick turnover". One set only made about 2200 RMB, which is really not much...

Of course, if you are abroad, you will earn a little more "billion".

By the end of this year, the PHS may be tested in a certain city. The price of a PHS is about 5000 RMB, which is five or six times cheaper than the tens of thousands of Motorola phones.Moreover, the service fee of PHS is also very cheap. The exact amount depends on how the post office arranges it. Anyway, it will not be too expensive.

On the day of the product launch event of Wujiang Communication Technology Company, the news that two-way BB machines can send text messages to each other spread like wildfire.

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

At this time, whoever can buy a Imagine two-way BB machine will be 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 boss.

The two-way BB machine is only 500 yuan more expensive than the one-way BB machine, but the function is so different that many people bite their teeth and want to buy a two-way BB machine.

Since the launch of the Imagine two-way BB machine, sales of the Imagine one-way text BB machine have dropped sharply, and other brands of BB machines have been 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 made Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd. sell not only BB machines, but also Wujiang program-controlled switches and other equipment products, and it made a lot of money at once.

As we all know, the full name of the program-controlled switchboard is a program-controlled telephone switchboard, which means a programmable-controlled telephone switchboard.

The emergence of Wujiang program-controlled switchboard, to be precise, is the emergence of Wanmen digital program-controlled switchboard, which further fills the blank of domestic Wanmen program-controlled switchboard.

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

The price of the program-controlled exchange is very expensive due to the monopoly, which directly affects the price of installing the telephone.At that time, it was necessary to pay an initial installation fee of about 5000 yuan to install the phone.

Previously, foreign Wanmen program-controlled switches sold for several million units.

The Wujiang Wanmen program-controlled switch is very cheap, 100 million units, but the quality and performance are not inferior to foreign ones.

Therefore, Wujiang program-controlled switches quickly became the first choice for domestic procurement.

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

"Boss Jiang is over the top, but our company has indeed invested heavily in research and development, so we can come up with program-controlled switches that are not inferior to the first-class foreign countries!" Lu Jia said.

"If you pay, you will get results. Mr. Lu, I have some good news to tell you. The Beiping General Administration of Posts and Telecommunications plans to purchase 50 Wujiang program-controlled switches from Wujiang Communication Technology Company."

When Lu Jia heard this, he couldn't help being overjoyed.

How much the Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau purchases will affect the promotion of Wujiang program-controlled switches.

The Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau is not to say that it is a domestic wind vane, but at least most post and telecommunications bureaus will still follow the Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

Even the Beiping Post and Telecommunications Bureau has purchased Wujiang program-controlled switches on a large scale. Why don’t the Post and Telecommunications Bureau in your small place hurry up and follow suit?
Except for Beiping, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Qingdao and other places where Wujiang has invested heavily, the local governments will basically purchase Wujiang program-controlled switches on a large scale.

Do you still want Wujiang Group's investment if you don't support Wujiang's products?
With proof of orders from major cities such as Beiping, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, Wujiang can go to other cities to develop the market for program-controlled switches, and it becomes as easy as pie.In addition, the name of the Wujiang brand is already well-known in China, and the major post offices also trust the Wujiang Group, so the sales process can be said to be extremely smooth.

However, at the beginning of the rise of Huawei in the previous life, foreign giants Ericsson and Motorola almost monopolized the entire program-controlled switch market. Since the technology of switches independently developed by Huawei was not as good as foreign products, they could not compete in big cities, so they had to find another way. Over the competition of big cities, turn to "encircling the cities from the countryside".

Of course, it turned out afterwards that Huawei's strategy was quite successful.

But Wujiang's program-controlled switches don't need to do what Huawei does, but directly kill those foreign competitors in big cities!
Yes, just kill them!
Regardless of quality, technology, or price, foreign program-controlled switches do not have any advantages.

In the long run, foreign switch manufacturers must suffer heavy losses, and in the end must choose to give up the Chinese market.

Of course, Wujiang Group will not let go of the rural market. Since Huawei is doing well in the rural market, it shows that the rural market is huge and deserves Wujiang's attention.

Developed 60, 80, 120, 1000 program-controlled switches, suitable for rural areas and towns.

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

However, they mainly go in and out of the local post office, and have relatively little contact with ordinary people, let alone paint advertisements on the walls.

Fu Junmin is a member of the Wujiang rural push team.

This month, he has won orders for program-controlled switches in ten villages, and each order can bring him some business rewards. This month, the bonus alone is more than 1000 yuan, which is higher than his salary.

As a local promoter, many people envy Fu Junmin for being a local promoter of Wujiang Group, unlike their local promoters of health care products companies, not to mention low wages, and there are certain risks, for example, Sometimes they fight with other health product promoters for the advertising space on rural walls.

In the 90s, nutritional health products were extremely popular in China.

A company that sells three oral solutions can achieve sales of 80 billion yuan.

You know, the 80 billion yuan at this time is very exaggerated.

In the previous life, Stone Group, the number one IT company in China, had sales of only more than one billion RMB.

Fu Junmin walked into the countryside with his bag on his back.

Various paint advertisements can be seen everywhere on the walls of houses in the countryside.

"When the sun rises, our love will last forever - Sun God Oral Solution!"

"Supplement brain nutrition, promote bone growth, improve memory - Life No. [-]!"

"Three Strains Oral Liquid Cure All Diseases"

"Three strains of oral liquid, gastrointestinal disease nemesis"

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

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

Fu Junmin has traveled to so many villages, and what he admires most is the "Sanzhu Oral Liquid". Advertisements for Sanzhu Oral Liquid can be seen everywhere.

After seeing too many advertisements, Fu Junmin couldn't help but also bought "Three Plants Oral Liquid" for his family.

He sometimes thinks that the combat power of the push personnel in Wujiang can be half of that of the push personnel of "Sanzhu Oral Liquid", and maybe the sales volume of the group company's products will increase dramatically.

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Internationally, with the launch of two-way BB machines and Wujiang program-controlled switches, "Wujiang" became famous again.

The two-way BB machine is popular all over the world by virtue of the SMS function.

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

This wave caused Motorola to suffer heavy losses.

Anthony, the president of Motorola, sighed: "Since the launch of the Imagine two-way BB machine, the prices of BB machines of major brands in the world have fallen off a cliff. Right now, we can only go with the market, and quickly dispose of this batch of goods at a low price. From now on Afterwards, Motorola completely abandoned the BB phone business and focused on the development of mobile phones. As long as the mobile phone develops, BB phones will be eliminated sooner or later!"

As soon as the voice fell, everyone agreed unanimously.

Wujiang Group has always been ahead of other companies in the BB mobile phone market. Other manufacturers have been imitating and being cheated. The executives of Motorola are already afraid.

When Wujiang launched a digital BB machine, everyone rushed to imitate it. When it was able to produce a digital BB machine, Wujiang released a text BB machine. When it was able to produce a text BB machine, Wujiang released a two-way text BB machine.

Tired, don't imitate anymore, Wujiang Group is simply a devil, it's too good at torturing people...

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At this time, Wujiang's program-controlled switches have easily opened the door to the overseas telecommunications market by virtue of the advantages of high quality and low price.

Ericsson, Motorola and other giants are facing a big enemy.

However, Wujiang's program-controlled switches have great advantages of high quality and low price, and many telecommunications companies are willing to take the initiative to reach cooperation with Wujiang Communication Technology Company.Who would have trouble with money?
"Boss, when the Hong Kong Telephone Company purchased the Wujiang program-controlled switchboard, it took the initiative to disclose to our company that the Great Eastern Telegraph Company from the United Kingdom is buying the Hong Kong Telephone Company, and asked us whether the Wujiang Group is interested in the Hong Kong Telephone Company..."

As the saying goes, the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's benefit.

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

HKTC executives and shareholders preferred to sell the company to Wujiang Group rather than Dadong Telegraph.

On the one hand, Wujiang Group is rich, and on the other hand, Wujiang Group has influence in Hong Kong and can promote the development of Hong Kong Telephone Company in Hong Kong.

At this moment, Zhao Ye finally realized what it meant to be rich, and good projects would come to him automatically.

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

In the previous life, Dadong Telegraph and Telegraph purchased Hong Kong Telephone Company and integrated Hong Kong Telephone Company and Dadong Telegraph (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. into Hong Kong Telecom Co., Ltd.

Unfortunately, in the end this company was acquired by Li Jiacheng's youngest son.This is more than just a "snake swallowing an elephant", but the other party did it.

At that time, Yingke Digital was only a small-scale information technology and real estate company. However, due to the serious technology bubble at that time, Yingke Digital’s market value was still quite high. Li Jiacheng’s youngest son showed his father’s name and endorsed him , and then without spending a dime, the bank syndicate led by the Bank of China provided it with a huge loan of 110 billion U.S. dollars, and successfully acquired Hong Kong Telecom.Although there are some other reasons for this, for example, China did not allow Singapore Telecom to acquire Hong Kong Telecom, so they could only choose one from Hong Kong people. Li Jiacheng's youngest son has a strong background, so he succeeded.

Hehehe, this is such a beautiful thing in the world, it is really enviable.

Immediately afterwards, Yingke Digital transformed itself and became the largest company in Hong Kong that simultaneously provides fixed-line, wireless telephone, Internet and other comprehensive telecommunications services and develops real estate, with a market value of more than 2500 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Even after 20 years, Hong Kong Telecom still firmly holds the throne of the largest fixed-line telecommunications company in Hong Kong. PCCW, the youngest son of Li Jiacheng, receives as much as 28 billion Hong Kong dollars in dividends from Hong Kong Telecom every year. Chicken with golden eggs.

Zhao Ye's expression changed, and he immediately ordered to his secretary Liu Yinyin: "Notify Zhou Anping that I want to acquire Hong Kong Telephone Company and Dadong Telegraph (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., and let Galaxy Financial Company take full responsibility for the acquisition plan!"

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

Soon.

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

At this time, Zhao Ye was thinking more. After Hong Kong Telephone Company and Dadong Telegraph (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. merged into Hong Kong Telecommunications Company, he would be able to take charge of the leader of Hong Kong's telecommunications industry.For Wujiang Group, the most important thing is that it can be used to research, experiment and promote new communication technologies, such as cdma.

Make a demonstration in Hong Kong first, and then promote CDMA to other regions.

In addition, the acquisition of Hong Kong Telecom has huge benefits. It makes no sense not to seize a good opportunity now.

The acquisition of Hong Kong Telecom made Zhao Ye think of Li Jiacheng.

Compared with his son "Snake Tunxiang", Li Jiacheng's "selling oranges at sky-high prices" is even more brilliant.

Li Jiacheng bought a British telecommunications service company with HK$1989 billion in 84, but the business was not satisfactory. In 1990, Hutchison repackaged the business, changed the company's name to "Orange", and launched the GSM mobile phone service, which became a great success and became the third largest mobile phone operator in the UK.

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

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

In 1999, the technology bubble was getting bigger and bigger. Germany's Mannesmann and Britain's Vodafone began to compete for the position of the largest telecommunications operator in Europe, and Orange became a key link.

The largest capital operation in the history of telecommunications, the game between Britain and Germany in Europe, has allowed Li Jiacheng of Hong Kong to earn more than 1600 billion from it, far exceeding his investment.

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

At this time, Britain's economy was not in a good mood and it was burdened with heavy debts.The British telecommunications service company has not yet transformed to GSM, and its business is not ideal.

Therefore, compared to acquiring a Hong Kong telecommunications company, it is easier to go to the UK to acquire the British telecommunications service company with assets of only HK$84 billion at this time.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Ye contacted Rex Eden and told him to go to the UK to acquire the British telecommunications company.

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

With the current financial strength of Wujiang Group, it is fully capable of acquiring Hong Kong Telecom and British Telecom Services and developing them.

If the British telecommunications service company had deployed GSM in 1988, its development speed might have been even faster than in its previous life. When "selling tangerines at sky-high prices", the price may be even higher.

In fact, Zhao Ye did not intend to let Wujiang Group enter the traditional telecom operation industry on a large scale.

The water here is too deep, and there is no government background, so it is difficult to do it. At most, the Hong Kong Telecom company will be acquired to demonstrate and promote cdma technology.

He even wants to learn from Musk, and when the time is right in the future, he will launch the "Starlink Project" and launch 4 fucking satellites to form a space Internet.

This investment is actually only 500 billion U.S. dollars, which is more cost-effective than investing tens of trillions of yuan in building 5G. Internet services can be enjoyed anywhere in the world.

Zhao Ye thought that he could establish SpaceX space exploration technology company in Hong Kong to develop rockets and satellites, and finally realize the sea launch rocket plan.

Sea-launching rockets has been proven successful in previous lives.

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

China later also launched its first sea rocket in the Yellow Sea, thus obtaining more than one billion orders for commercial launch services.

There are naturally reasons why rocket launch companies in various countries want to develop sea launch technology.

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

When launching a geosynchronous orbit satellite with a small orbital inclination, launching it in the sea near the equator can avoid the orbital plane change when the satellite orbit is transferred, and significantly improve the rocket's carrying capacity and satellite on-orbit life.These all show that sea rocket launches have certain economic advantages.

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

Zhao Ye got up, poured himself a glass of water, walked slowly to the floor-to-ceiling windows, and murmured, "If SpaceX is established now, I am afraid that sea launch rocket technology will require years of technical 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 is even more powerful than Musk's SpaceX..."

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

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(End of this chapter)