Chapter 1994 The Rollout of the Cellular Communication Network

After purchasing patents and obtaining patent licenses, in 1983 and 1984, Kirin Communications Company took over the construction of many cellular communication networks.

In addition to selling Kirin mobile phones to these countries and cities, it is also necessary to build all communication bases for them, bury communication lines, and so on.

Needless to say, countries like Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia do not have such technology and equipment at all, but Japan and South Korea have strong electronic and industrial foundations, so it is not impossible to produce these packaged equipment.

It's just that because Kylin Communications has many key patented technologies, it is much more expensive for them to buy and do it alone, so they all chose to buy the first batch of overall equipment.

For Kylin Communications, this is big business.

After successfully building the cellular mobile networks in Hong Kong and Singapore, and running them smoothly for more than one or two years, they already have a lot of experience.

Some areas that need to be improved have also been continuously strengthened and improved in practice, and then directly projected on the call effect and signal, which has been highly praised by users in these two cities.

At the same time, Kylin Communications Company has also trained several suitable engineering teams to be responsible for installing this set of facilities.

Since the end of last year, after the production of equipment, etc., is enough for a region, they have been installed one after another.

The first to be installed, of course, is the most prosperous and most economically dynamic city in Asia - Tokyo, Japan.

The Japanese are very rich in this era, and they are not in the area along the Yamanote Line in Tokyo, but in the entire 23 wards of Greater Tokyo.

With such a large area, it can already be regarded as the largest urban residential group in human history. Even in the future, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen will not surpass them in this respect.

And Tokyo has gathered one-third of Japan's population and owns 60% of the country's GDP. The great achievements are not comparable to the capital of any major country.

In a few years, the overall housing price in Tokyo will exceed the entire land area of ​​the United States.

The arrogant idea of ​​"buying the United States and then renting the United States to Americans" was born in this historical period.

Of course, everyone has seen the later results. The Japanese economy was directly interrupted, and it never got back up in the next 30 years.

But even after 30 years, as long as there is a company that can monopolize the business of an industry in Tokyo, it can definitely support a super large company with a market value of 100 billion US dollars.

Because Tokyo, with nearly 40 million people, has such a strong consumption power.

Thirty years later, Xiangjiang can only compare with Tokyo in terms of housing prices, and it is beyond the reach of any other economic aspects.

These things have nothing to do with the current Kirin Group, but such a large urban agglomeration makes the work of installing equipment very complicated.

All the 2,000 workers came to Japan, but such a small number of people is certainly not enough, especially the terrain in Tokyo is extremely complicated, relying on them alone, I am afraid that they can't even remember the road in a few months .

So, in fact, 3 months ahead of schedule, the Japanese NTT East Japan Group sent more than a dozen elites to Xiangjiang to communicate with them, and then took the main small bosses to Tokyo to survey the terrain in advance and prepare.

Under such circumstances, when the construction started at the end of last year, the installation and laying actually started at the selected location.

That's the case, such a big city of Tokyo needs too many base stations and lines. NTT East Japan also sent thousands of employees to help with the construction, and they also did a full five It took a month to complete the laying of Tokyo's cellular mobile network.

So in May, NTT East Japan officially announced that it would start operating mobile phone business.

At the beginning of this year, NTT East and Japan conducted a lot of publicity. Many Japanese tourists who traveled to Xiangjiang and Singapore also saw the convenience of mobile phones. strangeness.

Mobile phones are of course a very convenient communication tool. After NTT spared no expense to pile up a large number of communication signal towers, the signal in the entire Tokyo is no worse than Xiangjiang. Even in the corridors, you can have a good call effect.

Apart from the shortcoming of the battery being old and a bit big, the biggest disadvantage of the mobile phone is that it is very expensive.

Both the cost of the call and the phone itself are prohibitively expensive.

NTT East Japan. This is also ruthless.

Originally, the consumption level of Xiangjiang is not much worse than that of Japan, which is about one-third, but they directly set the price of Kirin mobile phones at 4,000 US dollars, which is directly double the purchase price.

This is not counted, the price of Xiangjiang is a basic monthly fee of 500 Hong Kong dollars, and the call fee is 1 yuan per minute.

NTT East Japan's price, converted into US dollars, is a basic fee of 500 US dollars, and the call fee is 1 US dollar per minute.

Directly convert Hong Kong dollars into US dollars, which is 7.8 times the price in Hong Kong.

ox!

Really awesome!

But the day after they announced the price, when they officially started registration, they were surprised again.

There are 3,327 companies in Tokyo, who ordered 45,000 Kirin phones in the name of the company.

In addition, more than 100,000 people ordered in the name of individuals.

Calculated in this way, 150,000 Kirin mobile phones were sold in one day, and 150,000 mobile phones were signed.

This number is directly more than the number of consumers that Xiangjiang has been in business for three years.

The level of wealth of the Japanese people is really jaw-dropping!

When Yin Jun heard the news, he was extremely sighed and melancholy.

Pity.

How wonderful it would be to have such a contract several times!

Such a fat sheep can only be slaughtered once.

In the future, base station cables and other signal equipment throughout Japan will only be sold to the Japanese at the purchase price, and construction costs such as construction and bedding will no longer be earned.

In addition, the Kirin mobile phone has only signed a three-year contract, and after that it can no longer be bundled for sale. They can buy whoever's mobile phone they want to buy.

According to the extent to which the Japanese admire the United States, it is estimated that Motorola's mobile phones will sell a lot in Japan.

However, Motorola's good life in Japan will not be very easy. In a few years, Japan's local mobile phone operators such as NTT and IDO will adopt the model of customized phones to occupy the share of mobile phones in Japan.

Basically 100% of Japanese mobile phones are produced in their own country.

Koreans claim that they like to use domestic products and support domestic production, but in this regard, Japan, which has not advertised much, is definitely not inferior to South Korea, and has surpassed them in many aspects.

This state will not be broken by Apple until the era of smartphones, but it is so. Japanese mobile phone brands such as Sony and Sharp, which have not been sold in China, can still occupy 30% of the market in Japan. The above market share is really an expression of their patriotism.

Similarly, Kylin Communications' cellular mobile communication network business in Seoul, South Korea, started various preparatory preparations in March this year, and started the construction and laying process as soon as it was completed in Japan in May.

Seoul is much smaller than Tokyo, about half the size.

But this job is not so easy to do.

When Yin Jun finished filming "Forrest Gump", they only made more than half of it.

And the Koreans are not as grand as the Japanese.

As we all know, Seoul, the capital of South Korea, which will be Seoul in the future, is roughly divided into two regions.

The Han River flows through Seoul, and the south of the Han River is a traditional wealthy area called Gangnam District, which is the Jiangnan District that Psy sang "Gangnam Style".

Jiangbei District is naturally the opposite, that is, a poor place.

The Korean people asked Kirin Communications to install three times as many signal base stations and lines in Jiangnan District as Jiangbei District.

In this way, Jiangnan District has the same super good signal as Tokyo, Japan, while the signal in Jiangbei District is really average, just like Xiangjiang when the first batch of base station signals came out. When entering the floor, the call effect is very poor. .

The director of Kylin Communications Company kindly reminded me that even if you increase the signal by another third, the signal in Jiangbei District can be increased by 20%, especially in densely populated areas, so you don’t have to worry about many people using their mobile phones together. The signal will get worse.

But the answer of the Korean people is, no need.

Anyway, the poor don't have much use for mobile phones, and the real big customers are still in the Jiangnan District.

Even if they were on a business trip, people from Jiangnan District would generally not go into those broken buildings in Jiangbei District, so it didn't matter.

All right.

Now that they have said so, the people from Kirin Communications have to follow suit.

As a result, the pre-sale of mobile phones in South Korea was really confirmed by their communication company.

Of the 100,000 mobile phones, 95% were purchased by companies and individuals in Jiangnan District. Only about 5,000 mobile phones were bought by some small companies in Jiangbei District that have business with Jiangnan District.

After the work in South Korea is completed, the next step is Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, then Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and finally Jakarta in Indonesia.

The remaining three cities were not too big in the 1980s, and their special national conditions determined that their communication operators could not cover everything.

These three places can be divided into three groups, and the installation and laying can be carried out at the same time.

It just so happened that most of the communication materials in China, such as base station lines, etc., were completed under overtime, and began to be sent to these three cities one after another without any delay.

Speaking of which, the domestic electronics factories have really fed them with orders for bases and circuits in the past two years.

There are five factories in Shanghai, four factories in Jinling, and three factories in Lin'an. Workers work in three shifts every day, just to catch up with orders from six major cities including Singapore.

The procurement fee given by Kylin Communications Company was not low, and all the bills were paid in US dollars, which really made the local government and factories very happy.

The order is not like this is gone.

Communication operators in several countries will promote mobile phone networks on a large scale in the future.

Especially in Japan and South Korea, because of their small land areas, mobile phone networks will be rolled out to the whole country within five years.

Even after paying the patent fee, according to the agreement reached, they no longer need to purchase from Kirin Communications, which still needs these raw materials for the base.

And the factories in Huaguo are the ones that have counted all the places, have production experience, and can stand the test of quality.

So in the end, most of the orders will fall on them.

The orders from the two countries are all settled in US dollars, so one can imagine how much foreign exchange will be earned back.

No wonder the officials in these places are lamenting that Qilin Group is really everyone's lucky star!

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(Ask for an average order, that is, a full order. Come on, gentlemen, I look forward to your little hands ticking off and buying them all!)