The richest man starts with a blind box

Huang He and Leng Zhiruo spent three days with their son in the training camp, and then reluctantly parted from the child again. Huang Hui returned to the arduous study and training, while Huang He We rushed to the Xihai Satellite Launch Center.

This is a satellite launch center that did not exist in the original world, because it is a satellite launch center jointly invested and developed by Jiangnan Group and the Academy of Aeronautical Sciences, and its main business is commercial satellite launches.

However, there is currently only one customer for this launch center, and that is Jiangnan Group itself, and Jiangnan Group has an extremely important plan that is about to take its first step today, and that is the Zhoutian Xingchen Project.

This plan sounds like a fantasy novel, but it is actually a communication plan. To put it simply, it is the Starlink project planned by Master in another world, and Boss Huang himself moved to this world.

However, the Starlink project is not new. As early as the 20s, some people had proposed to put wireless telegraph signal stations into space, so as to build a supercomputer network that could allow telegraph signals to cover the whole world.

This plan was aborted, because the telephone quickly acquired the meaning of wireless telegraphy, and then the United States launched the world's first satellite, so the plan to use satellites to achieve full coverage of telephone signals was proposed.

More than half of this plan has been realized. Humans can indeed use satellites to make calls anywhere in the world, but the cost of satellite calls is astonishingly high, and the signal in some places is also very bad, and sometimes they have to wait for a fixed time , and wait for the communication satellite to fly overhead before being able to make a call.

This is why it is only half successful, because satellite phones have not entered the hands of all users, but only stay in the hands of a small number of people.

In the 90s, Motorola confidently proposed an Iridium project. They wanted to launch 66 satellites into space, and then these satellites could form a stable mobile communication network.

In this way, human beings do not need to build any communication base stations on the ground, and can directly rely on satellites in space to realize the grand vision of using mobile phones to contact anyone anywhere in the world.

Motorola has spent almost a full 10 years on this huge and grand plan, investing all the funds for selling mobile phones and various communication equipment into the Iridium project, and in 1998, this plan was really successful. up.

With the help of Russia's commercial rocket launch business, Motorola successfully launched 66 satellites into fixed orbits, and at the same time, Iridium began to operate, and a technological miracle was about to be realized.

As a result, half a year later, Iridium announced its bankruptcy, and the 66 satellites launched into space eventually all became garbage floating in space.

The reason why the whole plan ushered in such a tragic failure, later generations summed up many reasons, such as the R & D cost is too huge, the communication quality is not reliable and so on.

But Boss Huang pointedly said that there is only one core reason, and that is expensive.

Although the cost of using the Iridium plan is much cheaper than that of satellite phones, the average monthly call bill still reaches an astonishing 1200 US dollars. Even in the United States, this price is unacceptable to 98% of users.

What's more deadly is that users can enjoy the same users at a cheaper price.

At the place where the Iridium project was developed, there were very few communication base stations in the world at that time, and only a few major cities had communication base stations. 95% of users still had to rely on landline phones to communicate, and the monthly bill of mobile phones was as high as 2400. USD or so.

The Iridium Project at this time has planned an extremely beautiful scene.

As long as the Iridium project is successful, 56% of the world's regions will be able to activate the mobile communication function in an instant. Everyone can hold a Motorola mobile phone and communicate with anyone.

No matter how you look at it, it is much more perfect than the existing communication methods on the market, so the Motorola board of directors approved this plan without hesitation.

However, it has been 10 years since this plan was realized. At that time, except for some impoverished areas in Africa, major cities in the rest of the world have basically built mobile communication base stations, and mobile phones can successfully dial any fixed Phones, and any cell phone, have a much wider range than Project Iridium.

Although the phone bill is still very expensive, about 200 US dollars a month, but the phone bill is still much cheaper than the Iridium plan, so the communication services and prices that the Iridium company can provide are simply robbery in the eyes of outsiders.

While robbing, he also treated the robbed as a fool, so the failure of the Iridium Project is a matter of course.

After the Iridium project, the next thing I want to continue to try is Musk's Starlink project.

Of course, it is no longer the mobile phone signal that needs to spread across the entire network, but the mobile Internet network.

In fact, Musk's Starlink project is also out of time, just like when the Iridium project started, human mobile communication base stations have spread all over the world.

When Musk’s Starlink project was implemented, 4G networks had already spread all over the world. Almost anywhere in China, 4G signals can be used normally, and the tariff has dropped to the point where ordinary families can completely afford it. How do you look at this? Both a very stupid timing.

But the Starlink project was launched, and the reason why Musk is so confident in launching the Starlink project is that he still believes that there is something irreplaceable about the Starlink project, that is, the coverage of the Starlink project.

Some people may wonder, in 2017, shouldn't the 4G network have completely covered the whole world long ago?I can use the 4G network smoothly anywhere.

This is actually an illusion that only belongs to the Huaxia people. With the almost abnormal base station investment of Huaxia's communication company, Huaxia has indeed achieved basically full coverage of the 4G network.

Except for some inaccessible mountainous areas, wherever there is a population gathering, there are network signals to cover them.

But this kind of experience is limited to China, and many people think that it is the same all over the world.

In fact, even in the United States, the area covered by 4G signals is still less than 20%, and more than 80% of the country's land area has no 4G signals.

This is more or less the case in other countries, not to mention deserts, oceans, etc. There are no places where a large number of humans live, and 4G signals no longer exist.

The Starlink project can serve this part of customers very well.There is one thing to say, the Starlink project has been launched a lot, and many ocean-going ships have installed Starlink for the first time, which can greatly reduce their cost of using the network on the sea.

In addition, many farmers in the United States, small local tyrants in Africa, etc., have purchased the ground receivers of the Starlink project, so that they can use the network smoothly in places where there are almost no base stations.

Later, the Starlink project also opened up a new usage scenario, which is in war zones.

All kinds of infrastructure in the war zone are basically destroyed, and opponents will desperately bomb core facilities such as power stations, network data centers and so on.

Once the war begins, the areas and cities covered by artillery fire will basically completely cut off the Internet, and Starlink will become the only way they can use to access the Internet.

In addition, when the country's command and communication system has completely collapsed, direct use of Starlink to command is also an excellent option.The premise is that you are not an enemy of the United States, and the United States does not prohibit you from using Starlink or anything.

In general, Musk's Starlink project has merits and uses, but if it wants to achieve profitability in a short period of time, there is still a very long way to go.

The question came back to Boss Huang. Since he already knew about the Starlink project and knew that it was a difficult plan to make money, why did he pick up the Starlink project again in this world, and then changed it? How about becoming your own Zhou Tianxing project?

The reasons are complex, and one of the most important reasons is to maintain its own network control. More than half of Jiangnan Group's core business depends on the network.

And Jiangnan Group's largest source of cash flow, that is, 00 Network, is completely dependent on the network for profit.

If some changes happen one day in the future, causing some major countries in the world to directly ban Jiangnan Group's network products from using the Internet, then Jiangnan Group will face the risk of a direct collapse.

This kind of situation seems to be a fantasy, but Boss Huang knows that this order is just a matter of lip-synch.

A disaster that killed thousands of people can be easily fooled, so it should not be too simple to ban the Jiangnan Group from the Internet for the so-called national interest.

In order to avoid this from happening, the Zhoutian Xingchen Project has become a necessity.

In this way, even if some countries prohibit the Jiangnan Group from revealing their country's network, as long as the Zhoutianxingchen above their heads is still there, people in any country can rely on the Zhoutianxingchen to surf the Internet. The biggest hidden danger has been solved, which is the core reason why Boss Huang has to forcibly launch this plan after spending a lot of money.

Of course, Boss Huang is not engaged in charity. It was normal to spend tens of billions of dollars for his son before, but it is impossible to spend another tens of billions of dollars on a week for a risk that he does not know whether it will come. The Tianxingchen project, so this plan must make money, at least theoretically there must be the possibility of making money.