.On February 2, 6th, the old Smökang Company was imprisoned in the United States, which attracted the attention of the Fan family's mechanical research department.

Since the mid-1990s, with the popularity of mobile phones, the mobile communications industry has begun to flourish unprecedentedly. The two major mobile service providers, China Mobile and China Unicom, have made a lot of money. Relatively speaking, China Telecom, the former leader in the industry, could only engage in fixed-line business and could not get a share of the pie.

At this moment, Wu Ying, a Chinese student who once worked in the famous Bell Laboratory in the United States, saw a business opportunity. He introduced a Japanese-known mobile wireless technology called mobile phone calls to China.

This technology can use existing landlines to provide wireless communication services through wireless access.

Its biggest weakness is that the signal is very poor, and sometimes it is not even listened well in the house. Therefore, in Ming Dynasty, Japan, this is a marginal technology that has been abandoned. However, in China, it has become a life-saving straw for China Telecom, because with this technology, it can enter the mobile telecom market in a curve. The high call service fees of the two major mobile service providers undoubtedly provide huge room for profit for China Telecom's entry.

The Ganshidacon Company established by Wu Ying became the equipment supplier for the project. He named the mobile phone Xiaolingtong. In December 1997, the first Xiaolingtong wireless local call pilot was launched in Yuhang City, Xijiang Province.

Local consumers were told that Xiaolingtong's call fee was 20 cents for three minutes, while China Mobile or China Unicom's Lang phones cost 50 cents for one minute, with a price difference of 7.5 times. In addition, Lingtong does not charge for calls, and the price difference between Xiaolingtong and Ru is about ten times.

In just three months, the number of users of Yuhang's Xiaolingtong caught up with the total of mobile and China Unicom users. Xiaolingtong was soon popularized throughout Xijiang and was quickly regarded by China Telecom as the only magic weapon to grab mobile services.

A marginal technology unexpectedly triggered a telecommunications war between monopoly enterprises in China. China Telecom promoted Lingtong in hundreds of cities across the country at the same time, while mobile service providers from all over the country were sniping the entry of Little Lingtong, while constantly suing the Ministry of Information Industry.

The Ministry of Information Industry also felt embarrassed. Sometimes it announced that Xiaolingtong is a backward technology and needs to restrict exhibitions nationwide. Sometimes it claimed that after investigation, Xiaolingtong is a supplement and extension of landline telephones, and China Telecom is allowed to engage in this business with conditions.

The most sensational news was born in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province this year. Lanzhou Telecom issued a six-digit bureau number to Xiaolingtong, while China Mobile Company in Lanzhou did not recognize this number that was not approved by the Ministry of Information Industry and refused to allow it to enter the mobile network.

Lanzhou Telecom, which has always been awesome, simply cut off the contact between the entire mobile network and the telecom fixed network in a fit of anger. This made hundreds of thousands of users unable to contact the mobile phone and the fixed phone within dozens of hours, resulting in a major accident that is ridiculous.

At present, except for a very small number of big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, Lingtong business has been fully launched, with more than 10 million users.

China Telecom's strong promotion of Xiaolingtong. Naturally, Dakang has achieved amazing growth. After Dakang was listed in the United States, the company drew a perfect growth curve. Its performance exceeded Wall Street's expectations. Even during the Nasdaq stock market crash, its stock price never fell below $20. It is the best-performing Chinese stock market value. Stakang exceeded 26 billion when it was the highest.

After Fan Wubing returned to the capital, he heard people talk about this issue. He probably felt a little envious of Xiao Lingtong's strong launch. His father Fan Heng also mentioned this when he was having a meal, saying that the Ministry of Information Industry was in a dilemma. After all, the palms and backs of his hands are flesh, so you are unlikely to let Mobile and China Unicom take all the good things, let Telecom starve to death, right?

"Survival of the fittest," said Fan Wubing, "The biggest problem at present is no longer a question, but a reason for the high cost of mobile phones. It is precisely because of the high profits of mobile phone bills that Xiaolingtong has entered the Chinese market with an inherent demand. Once the cost is reduced, backward technologies will naturally have no market, and this is also an inevitable market self-select."

"Do you tend to explore Xiaolingtong Network?" Fan Heng asked. He now attaches great importance to his son's opinions.

"You must always respect the market's choices." Fan Wubing didn't explain it very clearly.

In fact, some people call it "Waiwaicao" for things like Xiaolingtong, which means that this thing is small but not effective and not good. After most people pick it up, they always say "hehe" twice, and then they can't hear what the other party is talking about, so they shouted "cao" again to finish the matter.

Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, from the perspective of actual application, Xiao Lingtong does have many problems.

The basic condition for its survival is the phone bill economy. Xiaolingtong and landline phones use the same rate standards and implement one-way charges. At the price of landlines, enjoy the convenience of local mobile phones. Of course, it can attract many people. Moreover, Xiaolingtong's power consumption electromagnetic wave radiation poles do not have much radiation harm to the human body, and are loved by some special groups such as the elderly, pregnant women, and medical staff.

Moreover, Xiaolingtong consumes power and has a long standby time. Once charged, the standby time can reach ten days, which saves the trouble of frequent charging. Therefore, there are indeed many people who use Xiaolingtong, and there are even many people who do not have a great demand for mobile phone business. They also replaced the mobile phone they used before with Xiaolingtong. On the one hand, they saved money and on the other hand, they saved trouble, and some flaws were tolerated.

But overall, Xiaolingtong is a product of a special period. It is also a helpless move by China Telecom and China Netcom because they do not have a mobile license, but it seized a large number of users for operators on the eve of Lun.

Xiaolingtong has many disadvantages. There are few auxiliary functions. Short messages can only be used between Xiaolingtong, online browsing, mobile games, and many fashionable new functions. In addition, the network coverage is poor, which is generally limited to urban use, with poor signals, few base stations, poor calls in local areas of the city, and even more unavailable when there is a power outage.

If it is in a car, it is basically unusable because once the car has passed forty kilometers, the call will be intermittent. Although Japan is still constantly improving Xiaolingtong technology, after the introduction of this area in China, it will basically no longer be displayed, which also causes the problem of the subsequent functions not keeping up.

The most important point is that Xiaolingtong cannot roam the whole country like a mobile phone, so it can only supplement and extend the landline, and there is always a considerable gap between it and mobile phones in terms of function.

Rebirth in the previous life. Pao Wubian also used Xiao Lingtong in Yiwei. How to say it? Gu Ru said that he had an order) to go down to the song city to sing. Once he entered that relatively closed environment, Xiao Lingtong was completely out of touch. If it was nothing, it would be equivalent to shutting down the phone automatically. If it was something, the impact would be great, and it would be far from the convenience of mobile phone insurance.

"Under the current conditions, considering the appearance of Xiaolingtong from the perspective of cost-effectiveness, it has indeed made many people with poor consumption capacity find a way out." Fan Wubing explained to his father Fan Heng, "Although it is a backward technology, the technology provided by domestic mobile operators is actually relatively backward technology. It is not only backward, but also expensive. This extreme monopoly makes the company have no interest in in-depth research. In the long run, China Mobile Communications' technical level will be reduced to a very terrible level.

In this regard, the addition of Xiaolingtong will allow telecommunications to divide up part of the mobile communication market without a mobile business license. On the other hand, it can also reduce the high mobile phone communication costs, which is still very beneficial to reducing the degree of monopoly." Fan Heng nodded and agreed, "In fact, the people in the Ministry of Information Industry have a more headache. After all, if you want them to break the industry monopoly, the risks you have to bear are too great, and the company will be able to adapt and toss there, and the effect will be much better.

Fan Wubing was deeply ashamed of this, "He is in a high position, does not want to make progress, and has the decision-making power in his hands but does not dare to use it. Although he knows that the industry monopoly is very harmful, he insists on letting it go, just to mix his term of office and retire safely. There are too many such people among the senior management now."

Logically speaking, the stupid and powerful leadership is the most beneficial for a big chaebol like Fan Wubing. Although Fan Wubing is a big chaebol, his experience of civilians in his previous life made him understand a lot of things, know the difficulties of ordinary people, and know how much pain these leaders who are in corpse and eat can bring to the people. Therefore, he is even more difficult for him to tolerate those who are employed with high salaries who harm the rights of citizens.

Fan Heng was not very willing to do theology at this time, after all, the role he could play was limited. "Why didn't your Fan Investment Group get involved in the Xiaolingtong business? I heard that the profits in this area are not."

Fan Wubing shook his head and denied, "Xiaolingtong is just a product of a transitional period, and it is inherently deficient. Our Fan Investment Group is mainly engaged in mobile phone research and production, and the prices of major components have now dropped to a shocking level. Our profits are very generous, and the scale of tens of billions of revenue per year is already very satisfactory."

Since the mobile phone research department of Fan's Investment Group has obtained the technical capabilities of the underlying new products, Fan's mobile phone cost has been greatly reduced. At present, the cost of a single ordinary mobile phone has been reduced to less than 200 yuan, but the price is more than 1,000 yuan. It can be said that it is an absolute huge profit, especially the price advantages of mid-to-high-end products are also reflected. The sales of high-end mobile phones that are more suitable for the aesthetic concept of Chinese people are very good, and the profits are even more amazing.

"In fact, making money means making money from those rich people. Once our business of customizing mobile phones for the rich was launched, mobile phones with a cost of up to millions of dollars can be said to be in short supply, and the annual sales revenue in this area exceeded billions of dollars." Fan Wubing thought of this and couldn't help but say to his father Fan Heng with some emotion, "With the most advanced chips, the most exquisite handicraft level, and valuable materials, the best mobile phone series we have created is not so much a commodity, but a market-oriented work of art. Such products are naturally very popular among the wealthy classes at home and abroad."

"There are more and more rich people. After hearing this, Fan Heng couldn't help but sigh.

"It should be said that the polarization is getting worse and worse," Fan Wubing replied, "Whether from abroad or from the domestic perspective, the polarization is intensifying now. The number of wealthy people with a net worth of over 10 billion US dollars is increasing, and the phenomenon of embezzlement of state-owned assets in China is also increasing. This is an era of bloody wealth creation. On the premise of sacrificing the interests of most people, countless new noble classes are born every day." Fan Heng said with a frown.

In fact, Fan Heng himself felt a little depressed. Yes, in recent years, the country's wealth has indeed increased a lot, and the people's living standards have indeed improved a lot. However, from the perspective of the growth of per capita income level, there are some problems. The problems of state-owned enterprise reform are also difficult. Although many enterprises have completed the restructuring, employees are often laid off as sacrificed objects. At extremely low costs, the leadership has controlled the company and become new major shareholders, while the employees have become migrant workers without exception.

Fan Heng did not think that such reforms were the reforms in his ideals, but the result now seems to be more like resource plunder during a land enclosure movement, but this time it was carried out in the name of reforms.

Many people, through the legal confirmation process, immediately gained amazing wealth astronomical numbers, and more people became penniless in this seemingly fair process. They even lost the source of their lives and were forced to push them into society and solve their own problems.

With such a huge contrast, even senior executives like Fan Heng who come into contact with state-owned enterprise reform every day will be worried.

But he was also unable to change all this. Because he was facing an extremely large interest group, which could not be adapted by one person or several people or even one group.

Even if Fan Wubing can control so many companies, so much funds, and so much assets, he is just a wealthy man with considerable influence. If you want to talk about confronting this interest group head-on, it is tantamount to being a mantis armed and chariot.

In the face of pure disputes of interest, any righteousness, morality, shame and law are all irrelevant

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