Chapter 212: Raging Fire

"Yanqing Post and Telecommunications Bureau, the Ministry of Economy and Trade, the Foreign Exchange Department, and other departments investigated and researched the Hanxi telecommunications industry!"

"Hanxi Telecom officially announced the bidding for the PHS base station project in three cities: the provincial capital, Pingyang, and Shangzhong, with a total value expected to exceed 20 million yuan!"

"Li Dongling High-Tech officially announced that it will officially sell the Xiaolingtong mobile phone in Hanxi Province in the near future, and it is expected to conduct test runs in the provincial capital, Pingyang, and other places!"

After that report in the Science and Technology Daily, news related to the Xiaolingtong began to appear on a large scale, and the attitude of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau toward PHS was also visibly changing.

This was mainly because Yang Yang Bohua, the supervisor of Hanxi Post and Telecommunications who was in Yanqing, had submitted the plan he discussed with Li Li Dongling to promote PHS base stations and Xiaolingtong overseas.

PHS base stations had defects and limitations and would be replaced by GSM and CDMA, but they also had advantages. Both base stations and mobile phones could significantly reduce costs and could be promoted rapidly on a large scale, allowing a region to enter the modern communication era at the fastest speed and lowest cost.

Within ten years, PHS might be more adaptable to the domestic market than the huge-investment GSM and CDMA. Another point was that this thing, now the technology was in the hands of Li Dongling High-Tech, could not be controlled by others. Even, the domestic Post and Telecommunications Department could use this as a bargaining chip to exchange more things from foreign companies that developed GSM and CDMA technology.

In addition, the most important thing was that PHS base stations and Xiaolingtong mobile phones could be exported. Whether it was mobile phones or communications equipment exports, they now belonged to high-tech and high-profit products. Just like the 30,000 Xiaolingtong mobile phones, they earned back more than 1.5 billion yen.

If localized PHS base stations could also be exported on a large scale, then perhaps this industry could become one of the country's foreign exchange income projects!

Regardless of whether there was still a debate in the country about whether the PHS project could be as popular as Japan, Li Dongling High-Tech had begun to enter a busy state.

Now the Xiaolingtong mobile phone production line in the Li Dongling High-Tech Electronic Industrial Park had begun to run at full power, producing Xiaolingtong day and night in three shifts, and the daily production capacity had been increased to 4,500 units.

In addition, at the production base in Yangcheng, and in Pudong, Shanghai, Li Dongling High-Tech also spent a large sum of money to purchase a large piece of land at once. A new production workshop purchased there was also setting up new Xiaolingtong production lines, and the Xiaolingtong production lines at the Yangcheng production base had also begun trial production.

"Not enough!"

"The production capacity is far from enough!"

Inside the Li Dongling High-Tech Electronic Industrial Park, Li Li Dongling looked at the Xiaolingtong mobile phones constantly coming off the production lines and said to Duan Duan Youli, the production manager of Li Dongling High-Tech, Song Song Yajun, the technical supervisor of the industrial park, and Tao Tao Zhiliang, the production supervisor.

"The daily production capacity of the Xiaolingtong mobile phone production line must exceed 30,000 units!"

"30,000 units per day?!"

Hearing the production target set by Li Li Dongling for the Li Dongling High-Tech Electronic Park, Duan Duan Youli, Tao Tao Zhiliang, and Song Song Yajun were all taken aback, and Ren Ren Yuefeng, who came over with them, was also surprised.

What was the concept of 30,000 units per day? That was a monthly shipment volume of 900,000 units. The annual sales volume of the Xiaolingtong had to reach 10 million units to eat up such a large production capacity.

Now the global mobile phone hegemon was still Motorola, with a global sales volume of 25 million units. The second was Nokia, whose sales volume was on par with Motorola. This year's global shipment volume was expected to be 24 million units. The outside world was predicting that by next year at the latest, Nokia would overthrow Motorola, which had dominated the mobile phone industry for decades since the 1970s, and begin to sit on the throne.

After Motorola and Nokia, the third-ranked was Ericsson, with sales exceeding 10 million. After that, brands like Samsung, Siemens, Sony, Panasonic, Xia Pu, Kyocera, Fujitsu, and Falanxi's Alcatel either had just begun to research mobile phones or were not yet on the stage.

If Li Dongling High-Tech pushed the annual shipment volume of the Xiaolingtong to the scale of 10 million units, then the Xiaolingtong would almost have the scale to compete for the top four in the global mobile phone industry, and even have a chance to surpass Ericsson and become the third-largest mobile phone brand in the world!

It sounded beautiful, but for Duan Duan Youli, Song Song Yajun, Tao Tao Zhiliang, and others who heard this for the first time, it felt too scary.

Now the global mobile phone industry didn't value the domestic market at all, let alone mobile phone brands. Domestic mobile phone brands, including companies like Panda that were now doing OEM for Motorola, had no international reputation at all.

Now suddenly hearing that the Xiaolingtong, which had been established for less than a year, was going to impact 10 million sales, for Duan Duan Youli and others, this was not a surprise, but more like a shock.

Li Li Dongling glanced at them and shook his head, "Nokia has only been transforming into mobile phones for a few years, at most five years. The time it has really been making mobile phones is even shorter. Nokia can surpass the century-old store Motorola in five years, why can't there be other companies that surpass Nokia?!"

Facing Li Li Dongling's question, the few people present all opened their mouths, but couldn't say a word. Now in the domestic technology industry, except for Li Li Dongling, who else dared to say that they wanted to challenge Nokia and Motorola in the mobile phone industry?

Thousands of words, countless people believed that domestic brands could not surpass Nokia and Motorola. To sum up, it was that domestic technology companies had no innovation, technology was not as mature as foreign countries, no investment in R&D, etc., and finally, it had to involve the theory of race, anyway, it was to prove that Chinese people and brands established by Chinese people were just not as good as foreign ones, let alone challenging foreign brands. Now, there were not many domestic companies that dared to engage in this.

Li Li Dongling picked up a Xiaolingtong. In the past life, Apple's transformation into mobile phones also only took a few years to overthrow the old king, become the new king, and ascend to the Iron Wang Zuo. This showed that in the technology industry, there were new kings defeating old kings, and there was no one who sat on the Iron Wang Zuo forever!

"When PHS base stations are laid in Japan, the country, Hong Kong, Siam, Jiaozhi, Malaysia, and other places, the Xiaolingtong mobile phone will also enter the local area. By then, perhaps the production capacity of 30,000 units per day will not be enough!"

Li Li Dongling said. In the past life, the Xiaolingtong sold 100 million units in the country in less than eight years. Now the Xiaolingtong operated by Li Dongling High-Tech not only had to meet domestic demand but also had to be sold to Hong Kong, Japan, Siam, Jiaozhi, and other places. It was estimated that the sales volume would skyrocket, especially in the first few years, when it was estimated that more machines would be needed!

"The quality of the Xiaolingtong must be strictly checked. There must be no quality problems. By then, it would not only be a return problem but might even affect the promotion of PHS overseas!"

Li Li Dongling gave instructions to Duan Duan Youli, Tao Tao Zhiliang, and Song Song Yajun. Bird was a vivid example. As a localized pager, Bird should have surpassed Motorola long ago.

But last year, for the sake of sales, Bird ignored quality, resulting in returns, which caused sales to fall, and the brand was also affected, leaving it only in the second position of pagers.

It wasn't until Bird transformed into mobile phones and cooperated with Falanxi's Sagem that Bird earned the title of "fighter in mobile phones." Sagem was not only a mobile phone manufacturer but also a communications equipment manufacturer. The communications equipment on Falanxi's Mirage fighter jets was manufactured by Sagem. This was the origin of this advertising slogan for Bird.

Li Li Dongling didn't want the Xiaolingtong to encounter the situation of Bird pager returns. Once returned, the brand wouldn't be able to recover for a few years. Only when a new batch of users grew up would they forget those dark histories.

The Xiaolingtong mobile phone production lines in the Li Dongling High-Tech Electronic Industrial Park ran day and night in three shifts, and the produced machines were air-freighted to Japan. At this time, that little freight cost didn't matter to NTT at all.

On average, for every Xiaolingtong sold, NTT had the profit of PHS business and machines, which added up to more than 300 US dollars, so they didn't care about freight at all.

The second batch of 100,000 machines, NTT originally thought it could last for more than half a month. Nakamura Osamu was also preparing to lay PHS base stations in Japan's other two major metropolitan areas, Osaka and Nagoya, and sell the Xiaolingtong there.

But before the PHS business in Osaka and Nagoya was opened, five days later, the 100,000 Xiaolingtong were snatched up in Tokyo!

This sales speed really exceeded Nakamura Osamu's expectations, and it also made Japanese mobile phone manufacturers like Sony, Panasonic, Kyocera, Xia Pu, and Fujitsu red-eyed. They could calculate how high the profit of NTT selling a Xiaolingtong was.

These 130,000 Xiaolingtong, NTT could originally get a 15% commission, and now they added a price to sell them. For one machine, NTT could earn 295 US dollars. For 130,000 machines, NTT earned 38 million US dollars!

But this was just the beginning, and it was obvious that Japan's demand for the Xiaolingtong mobile phone had not reached its end.

And subsequently, news of the Xiaolingtong mobile phone being out of stock in Japan appeared from time to time. After the 130,000 machines, Li Dongling High-Tech sent several more batches of machines to NTT.

One month after NTT opened the PHS business, Nakamura Osamu, with a proud look on his face, declared to the Japanese media, "This month, PHS business opened, and NTT added more than 295,000 new PHS and Xiaolingtong mobile phone users. In addition, this was still under the condition of a shortage of Xiaolingtong mobile phones..."

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