Rebirth of Xiangjiang: Across the World

Chapter 353 Warwick PHS Store
"Okay, okay, Mr. Zheng, let's leave a contact information and find a time to talk in detail."

Zhan Xuerong was all smiles, and hurriedly asked his secretary and Zheng Yaoyang's assistant to leave contact information for each other.

The purpose of this trip has been achieved, and he did not disturb Zheng Yaoyang's next trip, and said his farewell.

Before leaving, he patted Huang Rengui on the shoulder: "Thank you, Lao Huang, I will treat you to dinner sometime."

Huang Rengui smiled far-fetchedly: "Minister Zhan, you are too polite, we are all serving the people."

After a brief visit to the Communications Bureau, Huang Rengui told Zheng Yaoyang about the cost of building a base station in the Mainland.

In Xiangjiang, it costs 9.5 US dollars, but in the mainland, it only costs 7 US dollars including labor costs.

Because of the reduction in cost, the original 540 signal towers that were originally expected to be built have also increased by 192.

The area covered is expected to not only be in the three districts of Luohu, Futian and Nanshan, but also spread to the airport in Baoan.

Zheng Yaoyang also intuitively felt the benefits of cheap labor for the first time.

Xiangjiang technical jobs, the average monthly salary is 6000 Hong Kong dollars, with the same salary, five people can be hired in the mainland.

After the visit at the Communication Bureau, everyone went to the communication signal receiving terminal at Futian Port.

The signal reception of the entire Pengcheng is handled here, and it will be interconnected with the three main base stations of Xiangjiang in the future.

The interconnection function has not yet been activated. The so-called interconnection is actually cross-city or even cross-province roaming calls.

Zheng Yaoyang intends to reserve this function for the upcoming 2G mobile phones.

PHS started too well, with many functions, comparable to the Nokia 1011 piloted in the Netherlands.

For technology products that need to be updated frequently, it is not a good thing to be too perfect.

Just like many domestic military-quality products, they will be abandoned by the market. The main reason is that they are too durable.

After all, an electric fan can be used for decades, and industrial consumables are directly sold with a hammer, and they deserve to be abandoned by the market.

In this regard, we must learn from the future Apple. New functions can be available, but they must be introduced slowly from generation to generation, just like squeezing toothpaste, in order to maximize the benefits.

Finally, everyone went to the Luohu PHS store, which opened this morning. The limited edition of 6199 PHS units, each priced at HK$[-], was sold out.

Lin Defu did not engage in price discrimination. In fact, the price of the regular version of PHS in the mainland is the same as that of Xiangjiang, but it is charged a 10% tariff.

It is worth mentioning that even the special version of PHS has sold 300 units today, and more than [-] people have pre-ordered it.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Special Economic Zone. In the past ten years, many invisible rich people have actually been born.

The special version of PHS is gold, inlaid with diamonds, and endorsed by a group of Hong Kong businessmen. It can be said to be full of style and deeply loved by the bosses.

This point, I'm afraid even Lin Defu, who is far away in Xiangjiang, didn't think about it. He just put the special version of PHS on the shelves with the intention of clearing the inventory.

Everyone in Zheng Yaoyang went around and tried again. The quality of the call was basically the same as that of Xiangjiang, and there was no unacceptable situation.

Seeing that it was not too early, he and Liu Fuxiong planned to go to the airport in Bao'an and take the flight to Shanghai in advance.

At the street entrance of the PHS store, Zheng Yaoyang saw a red chrysanthemum that was both familiar and unfamiliar, with fifteen petals in total.

Zheng Yaoyang suddenly remembered that the red chrysanthemum was Huawei's original logo, and it became the well-known sunflower after several improvements, and said, "Stop first."

Seeing Zheng Yaoyang's car parked by the side of the road, Huang Rengui's car also parked along with it.

Huang Rengui came to Zheng Yaoyang's side, followed his gaze, and showed an embarrassed yet polite smile on his face: "This is the Warwick PHS store, and I don't know if Mr. Ren is in the store."

At the beginning, Zheng Yaoyang agreed to open the receiving port to let the market be in a state of free competition, so they also vigorously supported the local ZTE and Huawei.

But on the opening day of the rice grain PHS store, when Zheng Yaoyang came across Huawei's PHS store, he had an inexplicable feeling of being caught cheating.

Zheng Yaoyang smiled and asked: "Director Huang, can we go in and have a look?"

The manufacturing technology of PHS is simple, and the most important thing is the communication technology. They open the receiving port, and it is expected that they will be imitated.

It's just that he didn't expect it to be Huawei, Zheng Yaoyang suddenly wanted to meet Ren Feizheng who is now in his prime.

"Ok, Ok."

Huang Rengui quickly invited Zheng Yaoyang into the store, informed the counter staff of their identities, and asked them if their boss, Ren Fei, was there.

When the employees heard this, they did not dare to be negligent. They poured tea and handed water, and contacted the boss at the same time. After all, Huang Rengui was the leader of the immediate department who held the power of life and death for them.

After a while, Ren Feizheng came over in a hurry after receiving the news, and said hello with a smile on his face: "Mr. Zheng, I am Ren Feizheng. Nice to meet you."

He had heard of Zheng Yaoyang's name a long time ago. In the beginning, Huawei made his fortune by acting as an agent of Xiangjiang Telecom's switchboard and earned his first pot of gold.

However, since Zheng Yaoyang acquired Heung Kong Telecom, this business has also been cut off, and Huawei lost its main source of income for a while, so it decided to imitate PHS.

The main reason is that they are far behind ZTE of the same type in the field of switches, so they can only find another way to achieve corner overtaking.

Zheng Yaoyang picked up the Huawei PHS at the counter, smiled and asked about the phone's configuration and price.

Ren Zhengfei replied: "The price is 1699 yuan, the monthly rent is 38 yuan, and the standby time is about eight hours."

He is not the slightest bit embarrassed, technology products, there is no such thing as plagiarism, only reference and tribute.

The old Americans copied the United Kingdom, Japan copied the United States, and Xiangjiang copied Japan. Now it is their turn to copy Xiangjiang.

Zheng Yaoyang calculated the exchange rate in his mind. Although the renminbi has appreciated slightly recently, the exchange rate with the Hong Kong dollar is basically stable at around 1:1.85.

The Warwick PHS, which sells for 1700 yuan, should be around 3600 yuan if converted into Hong Kong dollars.

It is 2600 yuan cheaper than them, but the standby time is not as good as them in the long run, so the battery should be reduced.

Zheng Yaoyang asked about various functions, and Ren Feizheng's answer was also very straightforward: "The wireless landline only has the function of calling. You can also think of it as a castrated version of the rice grain PHS."

He knew very well in his heart that Zheng Yaoyang would not care whether they plagiarized or not, because he was a communication provider.

The owner of a casino, Huawei ZTE and other communication equipment manufacturers are like gamblers in a casino.

The more gamblers in the casino, the more the casino owner earns, because the communication fee is their income.

Perhaps for Zheng Yaoyang, the huge income brought by the sales of rice grain PHS is like the sweetness of attracting gamblers.

Only if the manufacturer sees the sweetness, more people will join in and help him expand the entire communication market.

Guo Kongli from Malay, Li Zhekai from Cold Country, and Wang Wenyang from Baodao all received free technical support from Zheng Yaoyang.

Ren Feizheng really admires Zheng Yaoyang, he is only 20 years old this year, how did his brain grow.

Zheng Yaoyang asked again: "Mr. Ren, I heard that the Netherlands is piloting 2G communications. What do you think?"

Ren Feizheng replied: "It's none of our business, the mainland doesn't need 2G communication technology now."

Zheng Yaoyang laughed, and agreed with Ren Feizheng's statement. There is no market where landline phones are popular yet, and 2G technology is really not needed.

He left his business card and said with a smile: "Mr. Ren, you can call me if you have any difficulties. I am willing to make you my friend."

Over the past two years, Zheng Yaoyang has been in contact with many people, but so far, only Ren Feizheng can know his true thoughts and intentions.

Ren Feizheng solemnly put away his business card, but said with a smile, "I hope that day will never come."

He understood Zheng Yaoyang's character, and if one day he really needed help, Huawei would most likely change his surname to Zheng.

"I hope so too."

The two chatted for a long time, talking about everything, and hated seeing each other late, until Liu Fuxiong reminded that it was getting late.

Zheng Yaoyang said apologetically, "Brother Ren, I'm really sorry, we still have to catch a flight tonight, so we can't have a few drinks with you."

Ren Feizheng was holding Zheng Yaoyang's hand: "Brother Zheng has a safe journey, the future will be long, there will always be opportunities."

(End of this chapter)