Although the country has been authorized by the European GSM standard in China, in theory, the formulation of standards is also to better charge patent fees. Therefore, standard makers will also allow a large number of competitors to join the market. After all, if competitors accept their set of standards, they will at least pay patent fees, so that the standard makers will not lose all their money.

If more peers are not allowed to enter the industry, the other party will choose other technical routes. It is precisely because the domestically politely stated that it is necessary to build GSM base stations and mobile phones, and European labeling makers are also welcomed on the surface.

However, if you want to use domestic base stations, you have to wait until next year at the earliest. This is Meng Xin’s cheating and takes a batch of GSM technical information from the 21st century to the place for digestion and absorption. So, although the new entrepreneurial department has just obtained the entry threshold for GSM,... Next, you must register a bunch of GSM-related patents. Not only can you reduce the cost of some patents by yourself, but you can also charge others’ patent fees.

Just like the gsm standard was first formulated in Europe, but by the 21st century, many patents had expired. At the same time, some new patents were generated to maintain the patent income of the gsm camp. However, in Lin Qi's original world, the patents of the gsm standard in the early 21st century were no longer monopolized by European manufacturers. Sony in Japan, Samsung in South Korea, Motorola in the United States and other companies later registered some new gsm patents. It was precisely because of the expansion of the number of gsm patents and the number of manufacturers charging patent fees increased, which made the patent fees of gsm mobile phones account for 16% to 17% of the retail price.

Just like Lin Qi and GSM mark the current number of developers negotiated no more than 3%, which is limited to the patent fees of these companies. However, if Sony, Samsung, Motorola and other companies also registered a large number of patents later, the total number of patents will definitely exceed 3%, because the current agreement can only restrict European manufacturers and cannot restrict other future patent holders.

It is precisely because of this that if you want to reduce patent costs in the future, the only way out is to have a large amount of patent reserves.

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After confirming that they joined the GSM camp, domestic telecom operators have already started to build networks. Before the domestic GSM equipment was put into production, they have sent a batch of orders to Nokia, Ericsson and other companies.

The first batch of domestic GSM base station orders were sent from the European Nokia headquarters.

After accepting the order, in order to avoid the long and long nights, Nokia in Finland directly mobilized equipment and people from its headquarters and took flights to China.

After getting off the plane, these business personnel began to assemble GSM wireless networks in China.

Of course, the batch of base station equipment imported from Europe is a sky-high price. Each GSM base station is priced at US$1 million, and there is no need to discuss small businesses with less than 100 base stations. Of course, in order to make people feel a little better, each base station will receive 1,000 Nokia phones. This batch of mobile phones is the source of the GSM phones that are free to be sent to the Internet by the three major domestic operators. The three major operators bought a batch of base stations and GSM phones at a price, and first tried the operation of the business in first-tier cities. After the business in first-tier cities develops, the number of base stations will be gradually increased.

Of course, the batch of GSM base stations imported from abroad are too expensive. After the first batch of base stations were imported into China, the domestic telecom industry dismantled several sets of base stations and found that the chips of GSM base stations are not necessarily more complicated than those of Pangu computers. The antennas used in the base stations are just simple metal antennas, but not too complex antennas. They are also quoted at 20,000 US dollars. In other words, if one antenna is broken, if you want to import, you are welcome, 20,000 US dollars per set. In fact, if you have a little research in China, the antenna can be produced independently, with a quote of RMB 1,000, and the gross profit is at least 500 yuan.

After the first batch of networks were accepted, the three major operators began to launch mobile phone-related services, but the current imported base stations are too expensive, so the temporary network construction is mainly based on "experiment", and each operator builds up to 10 base stations per month. Base station construction is currently mainly to cultivate maintenance and business-related talents. Basically, it is doing the same thing with several times of human resources, mainly to reserve talents for future business expansion.

It will be the period when the domestically produced equipment is put into production next year that the GSM base station is rapidly constructed.

Because, after localization, the hardware cost of 2g base stations can be reduced to less than 500,000 yuan. Even if a standard base station is quoted for 500,000 yuan, it is still a huge profit. The simple hardware cost is almost the same as if it can exceed 200,000 yuan.

The reason why this batch of equipment imported from abroad is so expensive is not only because of the expensive labor costs, transportation costs and tariff costs in Europe and the United States. What’s more important is that the other party is determined that China cannot build this complete set of base station equipment, so it is targeted to produce a relatively high price.

If it is in Europe, the same set of equipment will still make huge profits, but the quotation will be less than US$300,000! It is mainly because, if the quotation is high, other local manufacturers will soon begin to enter the industry on a large scale.

In fact, the 1990s was also the era when global communication equipment companies entered the industry on a large scale. Japan, Europe, the United States, China, South Korea and other countries have entered the industry one after another. The key to communication equipment manufacturers being able to achieve better development prospects is orders!

Later, China relied on the local market to feed Huawei, ZTE and a large number of world-class giants in the communication equipment industry, including Huawei, ZTE, and Huawei. However, ZTE and Huawei also have some key components that are imported directly from overseas for the convenience of procurement. Huawei is still good. Even if some parts are purchased, they have already been registered. Once others no longer supply the goods, they will start their own solutions. This registration has enabled Huawei to place a large amount of technical reserves and R&D resources on repetitive research and development. It will only be useful until others cut off Huawei's supply. It is precisely because Huawei has been preparing for it later, and quickly replaces its own products when suppliers are out of stock. This practice of constantly looking at suppliers in the international market with a vigilant perspective has made suppliers not cut off Huawei's supply of parts, because Huawei is really ready and does not need your parts to make them by themselves.

Another giant, ZTE, has almost most of its key components, which use parts from mature international suppliers. Because ZTE has never made plans to sell out of stock, so... Later, the Sino-US trade war, ZTE became a victim and was really cut off by US suppliers.

Because imported communication base stations are too expensive, and only domestically produced can employment, taxation and technology be transferred to the country.

Therefore, the country has also introduced relevant policies, the production of gsm base stations and mobile phones, and the domestic production rate of base station equipment purchased by telecom operators next year will reach 35%. Three years later, that is, by the beginning of 1996, 95% of the components of gsm base stations and mobile phones will need to be domestically produced. This standard is undoubtedly relatively high, but in fact, Lin Qi has made great efforts behind this standard to set such a high goal and standard.

Because the new entrepreneurial department demonstrated its strength and made the country realize that after three years, it could achieve more than 95% of the parts, so this policy was formulated.

"Lin, even if your Chinese manufacturers have obtained the GSM production license, I think it is difficult to produce parts independently within three years. I think the best strategy in your country should be to select multiple GSM equipment suppliers to allow everyone to compete and reduce prices instead of producing them yourself!" Nokia's Chinese representative William said to Lin Qi with a smile, "You must know that there are tens of thousands of patents related to GSM, and in the future, thousands of patents will be added every year. These patents can be used for a fee, but with tens of thousands of patents, do you have enough talents to understand and read these materials within a few years? Even if you can produce them, can you be more stable than our products?"

"The goal is always there!" Lin Qi said, "Just like you Nokia, who would have expected that before, it was just a low-end manufacturing factory related to wood, paper, and tires, but now it is a world-renowned telecom industry giant?"

"This is different... Europe has many developed countries, and the flow of talents is becoming more and more free. We can recruit many experts and talents from other European countries, and the gathering of first-class talents in the whole of Europe has laid the foundation for Nokia's success in the telecommunications industry." William said proudly, "The technology in the telecommunications industry is no simpler than the CPU of Pangu computers and XRM architecture. But you have difficulty replicating the previous opportunities... Pangu computers can succeed mainly because of the collapse of Atari, the game industry giant, you seized the home game console market, and then the curve was successful. The chips of the xrm architecture have just emerged because the concept of streamlining instruction sets in the late 1970s had just emerged, and traditional chips

Large companies, limited to vested interests, do not pay attention to streamlining instruction sets. You started from scratch, did not have the market and achievements of the past, and chose the best technical direction, so you have achieved leapfrog success. However, today, Intel, Amd and other companies, even though they are still mainly complex instruction sets, have introduced the idea of ​​streamlining instruction sets to improve chips. Other giants, such as ibm's independent research and development of powerpc, mips from mips, sun's sparc, compaq's alpha, and hp's pa-risc... These are new streamlining instruction set chips. In terms of performance, these chips may not be worse than your xrm chips."

Lin Qi responded calmly: "You are right."

In fact, the current moat of xrm architecture chips is getting deeper and deeper. They are not only used on Pangu computers, but also on minicomputers, supercomputers, industrial control chips, traffic light traffic systems, access control systems, servers... What's more, Lin Qi acquired the arm team as a spare tire. From the 1980s to 1990s, the call for streamlining instruction sets has been very high. However, Intel and other companies did not invest much energy and determination in the new streamlining instruction set architecture because of the market and profits of traditional businesses such as PCs.

Large companies such as ibm have also developed some high-performance streamlined instruction set chips, but what is surprising is that these streamlined instruction set chips developed by large companies from the 1980s to 1990s have not achieved success in the market.
Chapter completed!