Rebirth of the Tech Madman

When Tang Huan came to Chicago, it was already March, and it happened to pass by the coldest season here.

Chicago is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States after New York and Los Angeles. Needless to say, the level of prosperity is not to mention, Motorola's headquarters is located here.

Christopher Galvin, who was waiting eagerly, finally greeted Tang Huan at the airport.

As soon as he got in the car, he couldn't wait to hand over a "brick", and proudly introduced: "This is Motorola's original technology, and the product will be finalized soon. You can now dial the number to the headquarters. Experience it."

After weighing the two pounds in his hand, which is about 1 kilogram, Tang Huan smiled playfully and asked casually: "Is there a communication network now?"

"The experimental cellular network provided by Bell Labs is called Advanced Mobile Phone System, or amps." Christopher Galvin introduced enthusiastically while handing over an explanatory document.

Cellular network is a concept that Bell Labs put forward as early as 1947, and in the 1950s and 1960s, it received wireless channel support from the Federal Communications Commission and researched this field together with Motorola.

A giant in the communications industry and a supplier of wireless electronic equipment that occupy an important position in the defense industry also complement each other.

Motorola actively invests resources to participate in research and development of commercial power, mainly from products such as car phones, and in 1973 took out a prototype machine, applied for a patent, but only the commercialization results on this basis, a total of investment 100 million US dollars in research and development funds.

It means dynamically adapting to the full coverage area. This phone takes 10 hours to fully charge, and the talk time provided is only 30 minutes.

Compared with the 12 keys 0-9, pound sign, and asterisk on the keyboard of common mobile phones in the original time and space, it also provides an additional 9 special keys such as-redial,-storage, pwr-power and other special keys .

Tang Huan dialed the number skillfully, and the one who answered the phone was Martin Cooper, the father of the mobile phone who had been prepared for a long time. After the two exchanged greetings, the experience process ended.

No surprises. As Tang Huan predicted in advance, those running on amps have inherent drawbacks of analog communication, poor anti-interference ability, and noise.

As for confidentiality, you can think about it and know what it looks like, not to mention it.

However, in Tang Huan's view, the quality of the call with amps is not satisfactory. But this is already a big step forward in the development of communications, and it contains good business opportunities.

Tang Huan handed this one to Chuck Smith, CEO of Pacific Communications, who was accompanying him, and then asked Christopher Galvin, "Is the price set?"

"It should be around $4,000." Christopher Galvin didn't hide it, and answered all questions.

"Then the Federal Communications Commission's review, has it passed?" Tang Huan nodded and continued to inquire.

"Applying, it will be completed and listed within this year." Christopher Galvin asked with a smile. "Don't worry now."

"It's not that simple, AT&T's amps. It's not so easy to talk about." Tang Huan was very cautious.

"Isn't it, Pacific Communications is born in the Bell system, there should be a lot of common languages ​​between you." Christopher Galvin raised his brows, a little disbelief.

"You really think that there are seven melons on a vine, and there is no difference between you and me." Tang Huan shook his head slightly, "AT&T has shares in Pacific Communications and Fangyuan Computer. But I want to use Bell. The resources of the laboratory have to wait until they are completely separated in 1984. This is the result of the old spicy negotiation skills. And recently, Pacific Communications allowed the old counterparts to access their local telephone network, and also let American Telephone and Telegraph. The company has a grudge."

"In more than a year, AT&T will be completely dismantled. Your Fangyuan Computer Company is not inferior to it in market value, so there is nothing to worry about. Wait for you to take the part of Pacific Communications in AT&T's hands. After the shares were repurchased, it was completely on the same level." In order to consolidate Tang Huan's determination to invest in the cellular communication system, Christopher Galvin racked his brains to inspire.

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Although Motorola has a bit of history and still operates businesses closely related to the defense industry, its operating income, like the emerging Fangyuan Computer Company, is on the order of billions of dollars.

In other words, everyone is a phalanx of brothers, and no one wants to play a big business in a condescending manner.

Therefore, Tang Huan received the most grand reception at Motorola. Board members and important executives all attended the welcome banquet.

In addition to visiting Motorola, Tang Huan also deliberately learned about AT&T's amps and the operation of its experimental network in Chicago.

Amps is equivalent to the familiar gsm and cdma in the original time and space, and both belong to a communication technology standard.

Although AT&T holds the results of amps, it does not mean that it will be the first to make large-scale commercial investments in this area. For a giant like it, the business strategy emphasizes being mature and prudent.

What's more, AT&T is currently in the stage of planning a separation ~ www.NovelMTL.com ~ various interests are entangled, how can we continue to strategize on the expansion of the business territory.

AT&T once formally predicted the potential of cellular phones in 1981, and the result was that by 2000, the number of subscribers would exceed 1 million.

Obviously, from the perspective of futurecomers, this forecast is ridiculously low, and it also shows AT&T’s contempt.

But this does not prevent AT&T, which is determined to enter the computer field, to use the amps brand to carry out various bargaining, and Tang Huan does have a bit of a big deal.

However, Tang Huan was still very optimistic during the meeting with Motorola’s high-level executives, saying bluntly: “I think there are two irreversible trends in the current communications industry. One is that data transmission services surpass traditional voice transmission services, and the other is The popularity of mobile phones."

Finally, Tang Huan made it clear to Bob Galvin, Chairman and CEO of Motorola's Board of Directors, that "Pacific Communications will form a cellular communication network that serves as a terminal." (To be continued...)

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