The richest man starts with a blind box

In addition to the place where Musk's Starlink plan made money mentioned earlier, after Boss Huang turned it into Zhoutian Xingchen, he also made some optimizations to make him more profitable.

The first and most core step is to change the ground receiving part of the Starlink project.

In Huang He's view, the biggest problem with the Starlink project is that it needs a ground receiver to use it.

If you want to use Musk's Starlink plan to surf the Internet anytime, anywhere, then the user must spend an additional $300 to purchase a ground receiver.

The function of this receiver is to receive the signal from the satellite's Starlink project, and then convert the signal into a network signal and transmit it to network devices such as mobile phones.

It can be seen that this ground receiver is extremely cumbersome.

First of all, with this ground receiver, the Starlink project is no longer a convenient 4G network that can be used anytime and anywhere, but a fixed broadband that is still fixed within a limited range... unless the user is willing to put this satellite receiver on the back On the body.

Although the weight is not heavy, only 400 grams, the problem is that this thing also uses electricity, and there is no built-in battery, so it has to be plugged in, or equipped with an external battery, which is very tasteless.

Although it is said that selling a ground receiver can make a profit of hundreds of dollars, which can bring a lot of extra income, but this thing will eventually greatly limit the portability of the Starlink project.

Boss Huang's improved Zhoutian Xingchen Project directly solves this problem. Users no longer need any ground receivers, and can directly use their own personal terminals to receive signals from space.

In this way, the Zhoutian Xingchen Project has completely become a perfect substitute for the mobile network. As long as users are on the earth, they can use the network anytime, anywhere without any restrictions.

Some people may wonder that this kind of improvement is impossible for Musk to think of, so why doesn't his Starlink plan directly build the receiver into the mobile phone, but has to build an additional ground receiver?
The reason is simple, because the success rate is very high, and it is not realistic at the same time.

First of all, all current smartphones have never considered the problem of receiving satellite signals from space, so there is no such functional unit inside the phone.

Unless Musk has the ability to add a new unit to all user mobile phones, or to add a satellite receiving functional unit to all newly produced mobile phones even if the cost is increased, otherwise he can only rely on the user Way to sell ground receivers to solve the problem.

But this problem does not exist for Jiangnan Group. Although Jiangnan Group itself has stopped selling personal terminals for a long time, all technical standards of personal terminals and related technical authorizations are all strictly controlled by Jiangnan Group. hands.

The Jiangnan Group only needs to convene a meeting with all the enterprises internally. In the future, the functional unit of satellite reception will become a standard function of all personal terminals. At the same time, various corresponding technical support and services will be directly disconnected and so on.

Of course, the cost of doing so will definitely increase, so Jiangnan Group supports everyone's collective price increase in the future.

The sales cost price of a functional unit is about 5 dollars, so it is normal for everyone to increase the price by 20 dollars, because the technology and functions have been improved.

As for whether users accept it or not, all personal terminal companies have raised prices at the same time. If you don't accept it, then don't buy new terminals.

What, what if some companies are unwilling to raise prices?
It doesn't matter, anyway, all enterprises must install satellite receiving function units for their personal terminals, so their mobile phone production costs must be further increased. If they don't raise prices, their profits will decrease. This is the price. Jiangnan Group will not take care of the war issue.

Anyway, given the current status of Jiangnan Group in the entire industry, this is really a problem that can be solved in a meeting, and companies generally accept it.

Because with the continuous development of the personal terminal industry, companies have to launch new models of personal terminals every year, and these functional terminals must be equipped with some breakthrough functions, otherwise it will be difficult to attract consumers during publicity.

Then the ability to directly receive satellite signals is a pretty good selling point.

So this big problem for the Starlink project no longer exists for the Jiangnan Group.

In addition to the hardware problems, there is another great problem that comes from technology.

Why do all ground satellite receivers have to be designed in the shape of an umbrella? Is it because the shape looks good?
Of course not, this is because the signal from the satellite is actually very weak, and an umbrella-shaped receiving device is needed on the ground to receive a large number of satellite signals, thereby increasing the network speed.

But if there is a built-in satellite receiving functional unit inside the mobile phone, then this functional unit can only receive satellite signals at a small point outside, so that the satellite signal will be very weak, and it will be so weak that it cannot be used normally at all. The speed is around 1K.

And it is impossible for users to connect an umbrella to their mobile phone, which is different from carrying a ground receiver with them. Therefore, if this technical problem is not solved, the mobile phone cannot directly use the Starlink project.

This problem has troubled the technical staff of Jiangnan Group for quite a long time. Boss Huang proposed the Zhoutian Xingchen project in 2010, but it was not until 2017 that the first satellite was launched. Years have been spent studying how to solve the problem of using only one point to receive satellite signals.

After numerous failures and attempts, the technical team of Jiangnan Group finally came up with the final solution. By improving the receiving material and using the huge multi-thread computing capability of the new generation of quinary computer chips, the signal is processed. Recoding, etc., finally allowed the built-in satellite communication terminal of the mobile phone to smoothly connect to the Zhoutian Xingchen satellite in the sky.

In this way, the Zhoutian Xingchen project has solved the most critical problem. The first satellite can finally be launched smoothly. In order to express his importance to this project, Boss Huang himself came to the launch site and witnessed the launch of the rocket. A total of 1 Zhoutian Xingshen satellites were sent into the predetermined orbit.

Well, because the entire Zhoutian Xingchen project needs to use a total of 6 satellites, launching one by one is obviously unable to meet the construction needs of Jiangnan Group, and the multi-satellite technology with one arrow has become inevitable.

So this launch also created a Guinness World Record by the way, which is the world record for the largest number of satellites carried by a rocket at one time.The official certifier of Guinness World Records was even present at the scene and directly issued the certification certificate to Boss Huang himself.

Six hours later, all 6 satellites reached the scheduled orbit, covering the area where the Xihai Satellite Launch Center is located. Boss Huang took out the world's first terminal equipped with the satellite receiving function of Zhoutianxingchen, and used the Zhoutianxingchen project I read the latest novel called "This Novel Is Healthy" through the Internet service provided.

Boss Huang is doing his own Zhoutian Xingchen project in a good way, but other companies and countries are quite dismissive of it.They all think that this is an unrealistic product of Jiangnan Group, destined to burn a lot of money, but at the same time it has no use value.

No one could have predicted that this is an extremely important pawn laid by Boss Huang for future changes.

In the next year, Jiangnan Group will launch 3 to 4 satellites one after another, and then these satellites will actively avoid densely populated cities and give priority to covering those uninhabited areas.

At the same time, Jiangnan Group also announced the charging method of the Zhoutian Xingchen plan, which is the traffic charging that has been abandoned by the times.

At the beginning of the mobile network, almost all companies charged according to the amount of network traffic used, but this charging method that suppresses users' desire to use traffic is destined to hinder the development of technology and the market, so this method is very difficult. It soon became a monthly traffic subscription model, which is also the mainstream charging model now.

Then why does Boss Huang go against the trend and charge by traffic this time?

That is actually to allow more people to use the Zhoutian Xingchen Project.

Because starting from 2017, all new personal terminals released will directly have a built-in satellite signal receiving function unit, which means that all new terminal users only need an electronic signal to directly use the Zhoutian Xingchen project.

Most people don't need it. They live in the city and the mobile network signal around them is very good. Where would they be willing to use the Zhoutianxingxing plan.

But it is impossible for people to stay in a city with a good signal all the time. They always have to go to some remote areas, that is, at this time, they have the need to use the Zhoutian Xingchen project.

But if the Zhoutianxingchen plan adopts the monthly subscription model at this time, then the huge monthly subscription fee required for the first use will become the threshold to prevent these users from using the Zhoutianxingchen plan.

In this way, the traffic charge is very appropriate, 1 US dollar = 10MB of traffic, although the price is not cheap, it is within the acceptable range of users.

Just imagine, when you arrive in a place without any network, most of the functions of the mobile phone will be completely sealed.

If the mobile phone automatically pops up a prompt at this time, saying that the network signal of the Zhoutian Xingchen Project has been detected, the user only needs to pay the price of 1MB = 10 cents to enjoy the network directly.

Presumably, many users will be willing to pay the 10 cents to buy traffic. Anyway, this function will be automatically suspended when there is a network. It doesn’t cost much before and after, but it can solve the anxiety caused by no network.

Of course, those users who stay in areas without Internet for a long time can also start the monthly subscription service, and you can buy a monthly 10GB stable data package for $1.

This is the most suitable usage scenario and charging model for the Zhoutian Star Plan.