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Chapter 408 Hook
After the China Business News, Yanjing Business News and Economic Daily, several other newspaper media outlets jumped out to add fuel to the fire. They were not invited by Dongling Hi-Tech, but came out on their own to join in the fun.

Influential domestic media such as Yangcheng Evening News, Southern Weekend, China Youth Daily, Industry and Commerce Daily, Beijing Youth Daily, and Hanxi Provincial News reported on the news one after another. Some media also seriously analyzed the future prospects of Xiaolingtong in overseas markets, which added fuel to the fire and stimulated countless companies to get red-eyed!
Before, PHS was considered a non-mainstream communication technology. Many global communication technology developers and mobile phone manufacturers including Daisy Factory, Ericsson, Nokia, etc. believed that even Japanese mobile phone manufacturers were unwilling to develop PHS phones. No one expected that the PHS business, which seemed to have no money-making potential, would explode into such a large market.

"Dongling Hi-Tech announced this year's revenue performance, which increased by 78% compared to last year, almost doubling, and officially became the most profitable company in the domestic technology field.

Today, media from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and other places have reported on the Xiaolingtong mobile phone. It is considered a miracle in the mobile phone industry. What do the two guests present today think of Mr. Li Dongling and Xiaolingtong? "

Compared with inland TV stations, coastal areas are in the midst of a wave of reform and opening up, with their economic levels soaring rapidly. In addition, due to their proximity to overseas countries, the media in coastal areas are more focused on the economy and technology industries.

As the hottest news at the end of the year, Xiaolingtong has naturally become the focus of media attention. The topic discussed today by an economic program of Guangdong TV is Dongling Hi-Tech's Xiaolingtong.

"We have to admit that Li Dongling, the founder of Dongling Hi-Tech, is the person with the most vision and courage in the domestic technology industry!"

The guest sitting on the left of the host is Wu Gaofan, who holds the title of professor at the School of Electronic Information Engineering of a certain university. The predecessor of this major was the radio major.

The radio major is no longer popular. Now, major domestic universities have basically changed the name of the radio major to electronic information engineering major.

Mr. Li of TCL, Mr. Huang of Skyworth, the founder of Konka, including Li Dongling, all graduated from the radio major, which is now the electronic information engineering major.

At the very beginning, Wu Gaofan praised Li Dongling, which was actually speaking for the entire electronic information engineering major.

"PHS technology did not just appear this year. Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company started developing it a few years ago, but no mobile phone manufacturer was willing to develop mobile phones that meet the PHS technical standards. Dongling Hi-Tech became the first to introduce PHS technology into China, and mobile phones really began to enter the hands of thousands of households!
To be frank, the development of mobile phone products represented by the big brother in the 1980s in the past decade is not as great as the changes that the PHS brought to the domestic telecommunications and mobile phone industries in one year!"

After hearing Wu Gaofan's evaluation of Xiaolingtong, the TV host asked him, "Professor Wu, do you think Xiaolingtong is important to the domestic communications market?"

"Xiaolingtong will definitely be the most important communication technology and mobile phone product in the domestic communication and mobile phone market in the next few years!"

Wu Gaofan said affirmatively, but before he could continue, another technical expert in the communications technology industry who was sitting on the right hand side of the host became unhappy when he heard Wu Gaofan praising Xiaolingtong all the time.

"But PHS is an outdated technology, lagging behind GSM and CDMA. In the future, when we enter the 2G and 3G communication era, PHS will definitely be the first communication technology to be eliminated!"

Zhong Chengdong couldn't help but say, "Anyone who has used a GSM standard mobile phone knows the gap between GSM and PHS technology!"

"If the domestic market places all bets on PHS technology now, then the domestic communication technology will inevitably lag behind overseas companies by one or even two generations!"

Zhong Chengdong was almost about to scold Wu Gaofan. He wanted to destroy the domestic telecommunications industry. The development potential of PHS technology was visible to the naked eye. Its call quality and stability were far inferior to GSM or CDMA. Why spend so much money on the research and development of backward technology that was even destined to be eliminated?
"PHS technology is still developing. The Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, which developed PHS technology, is still continuously improving this technology!"

After Wu Gaofan finished speaking, he felt a little guilty. Anyone who is related to the communications industry knows that a technology that is inherently endowed with fatal flaws will still have those flaws no matter how it changes.

Not to mention, Japan is well-known for its monopoly. NTT has been holding on to PHS technology and has been unwilling to let other companies get involved. Even Dongling Hi-Tech, which is NTT's most "close" partner and has made great contributions to the development of PHS, is not allowed to get involved by NTT.

This has led to a slow development of PHS technology. The problems of poor and unstable signals have not been solved. For the second-generation communication technologies dominated by GSM or CDMA, such as Internet access, PHS has no function. The signal for making phone calls is not good, and how can you expect to get online? !
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company has just started research and development of the second-generation PHS technology, preparing to improve stability and call quality, and also add Internet access capabilities.

After coughing, Wu Gaofan said, "But now, including in the next few years, Xiaolingtong and PHS services are the most suitable for the domestic market and market conditions.

The technical cost of GSM or CDMA is too high, and the cost of base stations is also high. The price of mobile phones based on these standards is much more expensive than that of PHS! "

"But if we give up developing GSM or CDMA technology just for the sake of immediate benefits, we will regret it in the future!" Zhong Chengdong couldn't help but say.

Wu Gaofan was silent for a moment. "Perhaps in the future, when GSM or CDMA technology matures, they will become popular in China, but now, it must be the era of PHS mobile phones!"

"The future will definitely be the era of GSM or CDMA technology. The rise of Xiaolingtong is just a coincidence. When Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and other manufacturers react, Xiaolingtong's global sales will definitely fall next year!" Zhong Chengdong finally "predicted". ...

In Pengcheng, in an office at the Chrysanthemum Factory, the conversation and argument between Wu Gaofan and Zhong Chengdong was still playing on TV. One of them was talking about the future and the other was talking about the reality. Only time could tell who was right and who was wrong.

"Currently, more than a dozen manufacturers, including ZTE, UTStarcom, BBK, Amoi, and Panda, have obtained patent authorization from Dongling Hi-Tech, the parent company of Xiaolingtong, and entered the PHS mobile phone market. It is expected that more manufacturers will enter the market next year, and the scale of the global PHS market will further expand!"

However, the host's last words made Boss Ren in the office, as well as Zheng Baoyong, Li Yinan and other senior executives of the Chrysanthemum Factory silent for a moment.

Boss Ren had previously decided not to allow the Juhua Factory to enter the mobile phone industry. Now, the Juhua Factory is working hard on GSM technology, but the progress is not great.

Research and development costs too much money. This is not a matter of willpower or something that can be solved with a little enthusiasm. The Chrysanthemum Factory makes a lot of money from switches, but it still feels difficult to develop GSM communication equipment.

It is not easy to catch up with Nokia and Ericsson, the GSM technology giants. Another point is that the Juhua Factory has been frequently targeted when it wants to get domestic GSM base station orders.

Ericsson and Nokia were targeting the Juhua Factory. As soon as the Juhua Factory launched a certain product, they would immediately lower the price, even at a loss, to prevent the Juhua Factory from taking any orders.

The technology of the other side was better than that of the Chrysanthemum Factory, and their products were sold cheaper than those of the Chrysanthemum Factory. How could the Chrysanthemum Factory possibly snatch the orders? Even in its own home base, the Chrysanthemum Factory failed to get the GSM base station order from Guangdong Province.

Finally, I took a look at the news on TV. Only the Chrysanthemum Factory knows whether it regrets its decision not to enter the mobile phone market.

But Boss Ren knows that this is not the time to regret. Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Now the Chrysanthemum Factory can only fight GSM to the death. Regardless of success or failure, it has to grit its teeth and move forward. If it retreats this time, will the Chrysanthemum Factory have to retreat when it encounters problems in the future?

It's like a person who has lost his enterprising spirit and retreats when faced with problems. Can you expect him to accomplish great things?

"The Chrysanthemum Factory must continue to remain unchanged. No matter what, we must develop GSM communication equipment that is on par with Nokia and Ericsson in the next few years!" Boss Ren encouraged his men, "The Chrysanthemum Factory will definitely have a place in the future global communications industry!"

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"The sales volume of Xiaolingtong mobile phones has exceeded 10 million units?"

In Japan, the president of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, Nakamura Sueio, could not help but smile when he heard about the sales volume of PHS.

The more Xiaolingtong machines are sold, the bigger the PHS market will be. Similarly, the more famous and influential Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, the developer of PHS, becomes, the more money it will make.

"The founder of Dongling Hi-Tech should thank us, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company. Without us, he would have been able to sell so many phones and become the world's fourth largest mobile phone shipper?"

Nakamura Weifu couldn't help but boast to his trusted confidants that in his opinion, the reason why so many PHS phones were sold was all because of his contribution.

"Unfortunately, Xiaolingtong is not a product of our Japanese telephone and telegraph!"

In the end, Nakamura Sueio said with regret that if Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company could have obtained the mobile phone business and patent of Xiaolingtong, it would have been able to dominate the global PHS market.

As for another company in Japan, Kyocera, there was some chaos inside.

"We, Kyocera, developed PHS technology together with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company. We were the first to develop PHS mobile phones. But now a mainland company has become the dominant player in PHS mobile phones?"

Yasuo Nishiguchi, the new head of Kyocera who replaced Kazuo Inamori, questioned Hideo Tanimoto, who is in charge of Kyocera's mobile phone division.

(End of this chapter)