Rebirth of the Tech Madman

When Tang Huan came to Chicago, it was already March, just passing 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, it is so prosperous, and Motorola's headquarters is located here.

Christopher Galvin, who was waiting eagerly, finally welcomed 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 dial the number to the headquarters now, Try it out.

After weighing the two-pound, almost one-kilogram man in his hand, Tang Huan smiled playfully and asked casually, Is there a communication network already?

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

Cellular networking is a concept proposed by Bell Labs as early as 1947, and in the 1950s and 1960s, it received wireless channel support from the Federal Communications Commission and studied this field with Motorola.

A giant in the communication industry, and a supplier of wireless electronic equipment that occupies an important position in the defense industry, they also complement each other.

Motorola's commercial drive to actively invest resources in research and development mainly comes from products such as car phones. In 1973, it took out a prototype and applied for a patent, but it was only a commercial result based on this. $100 million in R\u0026D funding.

That means dynamically adapting to the full coverage area. The phone takes 10 hours to fully charge and offers only 30 minutes of talk time.

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

Tang Huan dialed the number proficiently, and the person who answered was Martin Cooper, the father of mobile phones who had been prepared for a long time. After the two exchanged pleasantries, the experience process ended.

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

As for confidentiality, you can know what it looks like after thinking about it, so it doesn't matter if you don't mention it.

However, in Tang Huan's opinion, the call quality provided by amps is not satisfactory.

But this is already a great progress in the development of communication, and it contains good business opportunities.

Tang Huan casually handed the set to Chuck Smith, CEO of Pacific Communications who accompanied him, and then asked Christopher Galvin, Is the price set?

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

Then the FCC review, has it passed? Tang Huan nodded and continued to ask.

Applications are underway, and all will be completed and listed within this year. Christopher Galvin asked with a smile. Relax now.

It's not that simple, AT\u0026T amps. It's not so easy to talk about. Tang Huan's attitude was very cautious.

That's not true. Pacific Communications was born in the Bell System, so there should be a lot of common language between you. Christopher Galvin raised his brows in disbelief.

You really think that there are seven melons on a vine, and the benefits are not divided between you and me. Tang Huan shook his head slightly, AT\u0026T has shares in Pacific Communications and Fangyuan Computer Company. But if 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 sophisticated negotiation skills. Moreover, Pacific Communications recently allowed the original old rival to access its own local telephone network, and also allowed AT\u0026T to The company has a bad heart.

In more than a year, AT\u0026T will be completely disintegrated. Your Fangyuan Computer Company is no worse than it in terms of market value, so there is nothing to worry about. Wait until you take the part of Pacific Communications in AT\u0026T's hands. After the shares are repurchased, they will be completely equal. In order to consolidate Tang Huan's determination to invest in the cellular communication system, Christopher Galvin racked his brains to motivate.

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

In other words, everyone is a phalanx of brothers, and no one can condescendingly set the profile of a large company.

Therefore, Tang Huan received the grandest reception in Motorola, and all members of the board of directors and important executives attended the welcome banquet.

In addition to visiting Motorola, Tang Huan also deliberately learned about the operation of AT\u0026T's amps in Chicago's experimental network.

Amps is equivalent to GSM and CDMA, which are familiar to people in the original time and space, and both belong to a communication technology standard.

Although AT\u0026T holds the fruit of amps, it does not mean that it will be the first to make large-scale commercial investments in this field. For a giant like it, the business strategy emphasizes maturity and prudence.

What's more, AT\u0026T is currently in the stage of planning to split up, with various interests entangled, how can it continue to strategize in expanding its business territory.

AT\u0026T made a formal forecast of the potential of the cellular phone in 1981, and the result was that by the year 2000, there would be more than 1 million subscribers.

Obviously, from the perspective of a newcomer, this forecast figure is ridiculously low, and it also shows AT\u0026T's dismissive attitude.

But this does not prevent AT\u0026T, which intends to enter the computer field, from using the amps card to bargain in various ways, and Tang Huan is indeed a little bit of such nonsense.

However, during the meeting with the Motorola executives, Tang Huan was still very optimistic and said bluntly: I think there are two irreversible trends in the current communication industry. One is that data transmission services surpass traditional voice transmission services. The prevalence of mobile phones.

Finally, Tang Huan made it clear to Bob Galvin, chairman and CEO of Motorola, Pacific Communications will build a cellular communication network for terminals. (To be continued...)

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