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Chapter 209 Rumors
The international news reported by the central media, about 30,000 PHS mobile phones sold in a single day, may be an insignificant piece of news to the uninformed people in China, and they don’t care after reading it.

But for companies in the domestic telecommunications and mobile phone industries, it has really made waves. The previously criticized PHS technology has begun to be commercialized, and it seems to be performing well in Japan. This means that PHS does not seem to be without merit.

You know, at this moment, Japan is a developed country in Asia and the second largest economy in the world. Its economic volume has reached 5.45 trillion U.S. dollars, which is larger than the combined economies of the three European giants, Germany, England, and France.

It is only two trillion US dollars away from America's US$7.64 trillion. This does not seem to be an insurmountable gap. Japan's clamor to buy America a few years ago was not an empty talk.

A few years ago, America cut off Japan's benzene, and Japan's real estate bubble was also punctured. However, in the eyes of countless people, Japan's economy is still the most developed region in Asia. Japanese people are engaged in PHS and PDC in the telecommunications industry. The technical standards are competitive with America's CDMA and Europe's GSM, but it is not an understatement. At this time, Japan's benzene has this qualification.

Nowadays, the telecommunications level in Asia and most other parts of the world is far behind that of Japan and Japan. If PHS can become popular in Japan, can it also become popular in other places? !
Seeing that it has been discussed a lot by the outside world, it seems that there are flaws everywhere. After the PHS of GSM and CDMA was commercialized, it seemed to be very popular in Japan, which could not help but attract the attention of the domestic telecommunications industry.

Among them, the previous dispute between Tanglin Hi-Tech and PHS Telephone and Telegraph Company also played a crucial role. If there had not been the previous lawsuit and Tanglin Hi-Tech had not obtained the patent and technology authorization from PHS, then it would be estimated that the domestic telecommunications industry would , will not have any thoughts.

Nippon Benzene Company is famous for being a monopoly. In areas such as plasma TVs, hydrogen energy vehicles, and robotics industries, Nippon Benzene Corporation was the first to engage in such things. It relies on patents and technology to monopolize the entire upstream and downstream, without allowing other companies to interfere at all. There is no room for profit, and I want to eat all the profits.

As a result, other companies bypassed the track dominated by Nippon Benzene and started to start a new business, excluding Nippon Benzene.

PHS technology is a bit special. Tanglin High-Tech has intervened to create obstacles for Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company. In addition, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Nippon and Japan do not want to promote PHS and want to build a new PDC for Nippon. Telecommunications standards.

For domestic mobile phone manufacturers, or manufacturers that produce pagers and mobile phones, they focus on PHS phones.

If you use a mobile phone, the phone bill plus text messages will cost you three to five hundred yuan a month, or even a few thousand yuan more. How many families can afford a mobile phone?
In contrast, although the function of pagers is not as good as that of mobile phones, they can still receive information. Moreover, the price of pagers has been driven down by domestic pager manufacturers such as Bird. The price of a pager has now reached It dropped below a thousand yuan.

But domestic manufacturers of pagers and cellphones don’t take it seriously. Don’t they know how good mobile phone technology is? Mobile phones can make calls and send text messages. They also have ringtones when they ring. But how much does a mobile phone cost? It costs at least eight to nine thousand yuan. Besides, if you can grit your teeth to buy a mobile phone, can you afford it? !

Isolated and helpless, Nakamura Nakamura lowered his profile and used the method of licensing patents and technology to attract Tanglin Hi-Tech to join PHS. This is very similar to Samsung and SK Telecom, which Qualcomm pulled the strings to join CDMA.

In the past few years, there have been rumors that mobile phones will replace pagers and mobile phones, because the functions of mobile phones far exceed those of pagers. This is nothing new.

Now, PHS is becoming popular in Japan, and Tanglin Hi-Tech also has PHS patents and technologies. This makes the domestic telecommunications industry inevitably wonder, can PHS set off a craze in the country?

Not to mention, when you buy a mobile phone, you also need to pay for the Internet access fee, monthly rental fee, and pre-stored phone fee. Whether you make or receive calls, they are charged in both directions. A text message is 10 cents. Moreover, the operation interfaces of mobile phones sold in China are all now. It is still in English, and text messages do not support Chinese, which naturally isolates a large number of users.

Originally, pagers did not need to worry about the threat of mobile phones, at least for a short period of time, but this time, the PHS mobile phone issued by Japan Telephone and Telegraph Company gave domestic pager companies a sense of crisis.

The atmosphere in the Bird Company, which is currently the largest pager production base in China and sold more than 300,000 units last year, is very solemn.

"Over at Riben, have the charges for PHS mobile phones really dropped?!" Xu Lihua, founder of Bird, asked the other three of the Four Elites of Bird, Pu Jie, Xu Xiguang, and Sui Bo.

Bird, which has not yet become a fighter in mobile phones, is busy producing Chinese pagers, and in just a few years, it has become the second largest pager manufacturer in the country after Motorola.

Now, what Bird is doing is to impact the status of the largest pager manufacturer in the country. It wants to surpass Motorola and sit on the throne of the largest pager manufacturer in the country.

Xu Lihua is a person with outstanding vision and action ability. He was able to focus on pagers back then, and he dared to develop Chinese pagers when Motorola dominated the domestic pager industry, which is enough to illustrate his vision and courage.

Although Bird's focus is still on pagers, Xu Lihua often keeps an eye on the latest trends in the electronics industry in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. He regards Hong Kong and Japan as the vane of the electronics industry. Anything that becomes popular will definitely spread to China.

"No news has come through yet. We contacted a person studying in Japan and Ben through channels and asked him to help find out about the status of PHS mobile phones in Japan."

The speaker, Pu Jie, who is the general manager of Bird and another founder, looked at Xu Lihua who looked worried and said, "Japanese benzene is different from China. It is a developed country. Even if PHS mobile phones and phone bills It’s cheaper there, but you can’t afford it at home!”

This is true, but Xu Lihua is still worried, "Niben Telephone and Telegraph Company has previously reached a cooperation agreement with Hanxi Dongling Hi-tech. Dongling Hi-tech will promote PHS technology in the country. Now the PHS base station is in Hanxi Provincial City. , Binh Duong and other places. If PHS really takes off in China, I am afraid that the pager industry will undergo drastic changes!”

Hearing Xu Lihua's words, Pu Jie, Xu Xiguang, Sui Bo and others were all talking about it. At this moment, the phone on Xu Lihua's desk rang. After the call was answered, Xu Lihua heard that the other party claimed to be from Mingzhou Post and Telecommunications.

"You said that PHS mobile phone is produced by Donglin Hi-Tech?!"

When Xu Lihua heard the news, he was stunned. The rest of Pu Jie and others were not much better. The impact of this news was really too great.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Lihua and Pu Jie looked at each other with blank expressions in their eyes. If the PHS mobile phone was really produced by Dongling Hi-tech, and Dongling Hi-tech still had PHS's patents and technology, this meant It is self-evident what we are talking about. The road to localization of PHS has been completely opened!

"The PHS mobile phone produced by Tanglin High-tech and sold by Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company is currently selling well in Nippon, with sales exceeding 30,000 units on the first day, generating foreign exchange of 1.5 billion yen.

Tanglin High-tech received a new order of 100,000 units from Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, with a total value of nearly 5 billion yen, or about 500 million yuan! "

It was not a secret that PHS mobile phones were produced by Tanglin Hi-Tech, and Tanglin Hi-Tech had no intention of hiding anything. The next day, "Science and Technology Daily" reported on the front page the news that PHS mobile phones were exported to Japan. This report The report actually revealed the domestic pricing of PHS.

Subsequently, the Industrial and Commercial News, China Youth Daily, China Post and Telecommunications News and other major media outlets successively reported on the incident. After seeing the reports of these media, anyone with a keen sense of smell can feel that something big is about to happen in the domestic telecommunications industry.

(End of this chapter)