Reborn in 1984: Starting with the Development of Chinese Character Cards, Chapter 110: Planning Ahead, Large-Scale Layout of Mobile Communications. The next day, Zhao Ye and others moved into the Moller Villa.

The Moller Villa, resembling a fairytale princess castle, covers over 5,000 square meters, with a garden spanning nearly 2,000 square meters. It features Norwegian-style spires, Gothic roofs, Chinese-style glazed tiles, and dark brown Taishan bricks. At the entrance, like a traditional Chinese mansion, stands a pair of stone lions, and the garden is planted with precious trees and flowers such as Chinese juniper and cedar. The interior decoration resembles a luxury cruise ship, with windows shaped like ship hulls and seaweed-patterned floors.

In my past life, if I wanted to buy such a large villa, the price would have exceeded 1 billion RMB, and probably far more.

Zhao Ye sat under the shade of a tree, sipping his wine and enjoying the summer breeze, filled with endless感慨 (feelings of deep emotion).

There are many old villas like Moller Villa in Shanghai, and their value increases every year.

If you buy these old houses now, even if you sell them later, you're guaranteed to make a huge profit...

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Wujiang Group, Communications Division.

"Boss, we've made a big breakthrough in the research of pagers with Chinese characters. The decoder, a crucial component of the pager, can now decode the signals sent from the base station into Chinese characters and then display them on the monitor!"

"In addition, it can also display English letters."

Lu Jia, head of the Communications Business Unit, explained.

Zhao Ye arrived here after receiving this news.

He looked at the pager's LCD screen on the lab table and saw the words "Wujiang Group" appear. A hint of joy appeared on his face.

The progress of the communications division exceeded his expectations.

“Excellent! We should perfect it as soon as possible and then put it into mass production!” Zhao Ye said.

Currently, the digital pager market is highly competitive, with numerous pager brands such as Imagine, Motorola, Ericsson, Panasonic, Sony, Hitachi, and Sharp.

As the earliest digital pager brand, imagine currently holds the largest market share, but it has been eroded by other brands, leaving it with only 34.1%.

Once released, the Chinese character pager will surely be able to regain the market.

It's advertised as a Chinese character pager, but it can actually display English letters and numbers. Selling Chinese character pagers to English-speaking countries would be no problem at all.

Of course, for other languages, such as Japanese, all that's needed is to develop corresponding decoder software, but technically it's similar, just with slight differences.

However, currently, paging stations are mostly operated by human operators.

With the increasing number of pager users, manual paging will become too busy to handle.

Automatic paging requires the development of a program-controlled exchange.

Moreover, the future development direction of pagers with Chinese character display is bidirectional pagers with Chinese character display.

What does a two-way pager with Chinese character display mean? It's very simple: it means you can send text messages from one pager to another.

In its previous life, Motorola developed this type of two-way Chinese character pager, which became a huge hit in China. However, the product was released a little late.

Pagers were already a thing of the past, gradually being replaced by mobile phones.

If a two-way Chinese character pager could be developed sooner, this product would definitely be popular all over the world and generate huge profits.

Chinese people like to send text messages, and foreigners like to send emails.

It's hard for a two-way pager with Chinese character display not to be popular.

However, before developing a two-way Chinese display pager, it is necessary to first develop a program-controlled exchange to realize the automatic paging function of the paging station.

Later, Zhao Ye called the heads of the communications division to his office for a meeting.

Zhao Ye first praised the work of the Communications Division, and then mentioned the two-way Chinese display pager and the program-controlled exchange.

"To develop a two-way Chinese character pager, we must first develop a program-controlled exchange! Moreover, the program-controlled exchange is not only used for automatic paging of pagers, but also for making phone calls and automatically dialing to telephones."

Although there are few mobile phone users in China, there are many landline users. Public institutions, government agencies, research institutions, schools, private enterprises, etc. use a lot of landlines, so a large number of program-controlled exchanges are needed.

Huawei started by making program-controlled switches. In 1990, Huawei began developing small program-controlled switches with a dozen or so employees. In 1992, the company's sales exceeded 100 million RMB, and in 1994, sales reached 800 million RMB.

This shows that the domestic telecommunications market is still very large.

It's only 1986 now. Wujiang Company started making program-controlled switches much earlier than Huawei, and its technology is far superior to Huawei's at that time.

In the conference room, Zhao Ye ordered the Communications Division to establish a program-controlled switch development team, with a tentative number of 25 people.

After a moment's thought, Zhao Ye reasoned that since Wujiang Group wanted to get a piece of the telecommunications market, it might as well lay out a plan all at once.

He paused, then continued, "Mobile phones are the future of communication. Pagers will be phased out sooner or later. We need to prepare early and plan ahead. The Communications Division should allocate more personnel to form a mobile phone development team. The more people, the better!"

"In addition, we also need to study communication network standards, that is, wireless technology standards. Europe is currently researching GSM. Although this communication technology is good, I am more optimistic about another communication technology!"

As Zhao Ye spoke, he walked to the large platform. In this small conference room, there was a black panel. Zhao Ye took out a pen and wrote the four characters "Code Division Multiple Access" on the blackboard, which is CDMA.

In its previous life, Qualcomm held a near-monopoly in the CDMA field, which led to the infamous "Qualcomm tax" in the smartphone market. This tax was extremely powerful, and every mobile phone brand in the world had to pay the "Qualcomm tax," even Apple.

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