"What product will Wujiang Communications Technology Company release? Will it be a mobile phone? After all, Motorola's mobile phone business is very profitable, and there's no reason for Wujiang not to enter this market!"

"Indeed, since Wujiang Communications Technology's name contains the word 'communication,' it's highly likely that Wujiang will develop products related to mobile phones! They released a pager before, now it's time for them to release a mobile phone!"

"..."

Many people speculate that Wujiang Communications Technology Co., Ltd. is about to release a mobile phone, and they are quite looking forward to it.

However, to everyone's surprise, after Lu Jia took the stage, he introduced and demonstrated the two-way text pager to them.

Two-way pagers are only slightly larger than one-way pagers, but they have widescreen displays, making them convenient for typing and reading.

When typing, a tiny virtual keyboard will appear on the screen. Users can type using the Pinyin input method and select letters by using the arrow keys.

The guests in the audience looked at the large-screen pager with slight surprise.

It not only displays the time and date, but it also has many more new features, including a notepad, pager account book, phone book, task list, alarm clock...

Everyone was shocked and speechless.

Several foreigners looked flustered, seemingly representing the "competitive businesses".

If two-way pagers are this amazing, will their company still be able to sell their pagers?

With so many functions, it's incredibly powerful, and it can even send text messages to all other pagers on the market.

If both users' pagers are Imagine two-way text pagers, then instant messaging functionality can be achieved.

The world's first text message was sent from a personal computer to the mobile phone of Vodafone executive Richard Jarvis by British engineer Neil Papworth in 1992.

So, there are no text messages or anything like that right now.

The two-way Imagine pager is much more advanced than the previous one-way pagers. One-way pagers could only passively receive messages, and if you wanted to actively contact the other party, you had to find a phone booth and make a call.

This process is just too troublesome.

Therefore, before mobile phones had SMS functionality, the emergence of two-way pagers was undoubtedly amazing and appealing.

"Mr. Lu, what is the price of the Imagine two-way pager?!"

At this moment, someone in the audience couldn't contain their admiration and stood up to ask Lu Jia a question loudly.

Lu Jia was slightly taken aback, glanced at the young man, and smiled, "The domestic price is 2,500 RMB, and the international price is 1,399 USD!"

Upon hearing this, gasps of surprise rippled through the audience. The price was surprisingly low; the Imagine one-way pager was only 2,000 yuan, and the two-way pager was only 500 yuan more expensive.

Seeing the audience's excitement, Lu Jia smiled slightly. The low price was for "small profits but quick turnover"—he only made about 2200 RMB per unit, not much at all…

Of course, overseas, you can earn a few hundred million more.

By the end of this year, PHS (Personal Handyphone System) might be piloted in a certain city. A PHS phone will cost approximately 5,000 RMB, which is five to six times cheaper than a Motorola phone costing tens of thousands of RMB. Furthermore, the service fee for PHS will be very low; the exact amount will depend on the post office's arrangements, but it won't be too expensive.

On the same day that Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd.'s product launch event ended, news that two-way pagers could send text messages to each other spread like wildfire.

Pagers are the most trendy product right now, and the emergence of two-way pagers has naturally sparked heated discussions among the public.

Back then, anyone who could buy an Imagine two-way pager was the coolest kid on the block.

Of course, if you can pull out a "big brother" mobile phone, you can't just be a handsome guy, you can become a big boss.

Two-way pagers are only 500 yuan more expensive than one-way pagers, but the difference in functionality is huge, so many people grit their teeth and buy two-way pagers.

Since the launch of the Imagine two-way pager, sales of the Imagine one-way text pager have plummeted, and pagers from other brands have become unsaleable.

In order to support two-way pagers, major paging stations around the world have purchased program-controlled exchanges and other equipment from Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd., and built base stations.

This led to a surge in sales of not only pagers for Wujiang Communication Technology Co., Ltd., but also Wujiang program-controlled exchanges and other equipment products, resulting in a windfall of profits.

As is well known, a programmable telephone exchange is a telephone exchange that is controlled by a programmable controller.

The emergence of the Wujiang program-controlled exchange, or more accurately, the emergence of the 10,000-line digital program-controlled exchange, further filled the gap in the domestic 10,000-line program-controlled exchange market.

Before 1990, the Chinese market for program-controlled telephone exchanges was monopolized by products from seven countries using eight different standards, a situation known as "seven countries, eight systems." From rural telephone lines to the national backbone telephone network, no one was spared.

The monopoly made the price of program-controlled exchanges very expensive, which directly affected the price of telephone installation. At that time, the initial installation fee for a telephone was about 5,000 yuan.

Previously, a single 10,000-line program-controlled exchange in foreign countries cost several million yuan.

The Wujiang 10,000-line program-controlled switch is very cheap, costing one million yuan per unit, but its quality and performance are no worse than those from abroad.

Therefore, Wujiang's program-controlled exchange quickly became the preferred product for domestic procurement.

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