Reborn Tokyo Golden Age.

Chapter 458 The Tauren

NTT was split from the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in 85. It still retains the name of the company and is collectively referred to as the Denden Corporation.

If NTT is the direct descendant of Japan Telecom and Telephone Corporation, then KDD (International Telecom and Telephone) is the branch that was split off.

There is a certain relationship between the two, which can be regarded as coming from the same department under the Postal Service.

However, there is no doubt that NTT, as a direct descendant, has inherited most of the domestic business of China Telecom and Telephone Corporation, and most of the fixed-line users are under NTT's banner.

As for KDD (International Telecommunications and Telephone), it only took away the international and domestic long-distance business, and it is mainly overseas business.

So after seeing that Shirakawa Electric and NUCT jointly launched a mobile phone with GSM signal, the most urgent thing is NTT.

Local calls, short-distance calls and most fixed-line services are within NTT's main business scope.

Now that NUCT releases mobile communication phones in advance, it is dividing up its future basic market.

Therefore, just a few months after the launch of Shirakawa Electric's mobile phone, NTT also rushed to launch its own first-generation mobile communication mobile phone.

In fact, NTT has been working on this project for a long time. In the past few years, the car mobile phones on the market were basically NTT products.

Therefore, in terms of technology accumulation, NTT has two brushes of its own.

It's just because Shirakawa Electric and NUCT moved too fast, so NTT was a little slower.

The TZ-802 mobile phone launched by NTT continues the early design style of Motorola.

With the same brick design, even one palm may not be able to hold it.Its weight is as high as 900g, close to one kilogram.

After all, as the originator of the mobile phone industry, Motorola being used as a reference by NTT is also a subconscious action under normal thinking habits.

But Bai Chuanfeng is different. He has seen various designs of mobile phones in later generations.

When technically possible, the semi-clamshell design is easy.

Therefore, in terms of recognition, Baichuan Electric's one series mobile phones are unique.

There is no doubt that such a design is aesthetically beyond the brick machine too much.

However, relying on the huge user base before, NTT's mobile phone was released a few months late.

But soon, it caught up with NUCT.At present, the number of users of the two operators is almost the same, about 60 to [-].

And both are growing rapidly as the infrastructure is perfected, this stage may last for a long time.

In terms of communication standards, NTT has adopted its own communication format, FDD-FDMA-FM, also referred to as the HICAP standard.

This communication standard was developed by NTT itself. As the predecessor of the state-owned organization, its various research institutes are very complete.

From communication standards to the development of mobile phone terminals, everything is available.

However, Nihong is not limited to these two communication operators. Since the privatization of communication in 85, there have been several newly established operators with a certain scale.

In addition to the aforementioned NTT, KDD, and United Communications (NUCT) of Shirakawa Holdings.

There are also Japan Mobile Communications (IDO), which was jointly established by Toyota, Die-Den Den (DDI) centered on Kyocera, NCC (NCC), which was reformed by a state-owned enterprise, and a non-profit organization focused on building sub-provincial roads. Japan Highway Communications (TWJ) is the legal person.

Once the opening of privatization is released, powerful enterprises are setting up their own communication groups.

Among the current seven mainstream companies, four have state-owned backgrounds, and three belong to chaebol groups.

There are two companies that have formally launched mobile communication business, one is NTT with a state-owned background, and the other is NUCT, a chaebol group with a new industrial layout.

And now seeing that the business of these two companies is so prosperous, do the other companies have no idea?

Of course there is, but because of the speed of the layout, neither IDO, DDI, nor TWJ have yet completed the base station construction.

The first-generation communication standards they use, that is, the analog signals of the 1G era are also varied.

For example, IDO adopts the same HICAP standard as NTT, but DDI adopts the TACS format.

The TACS format is a British communication standard, and DDI, like United Communications (NUCT), has introduced foreign technologies.

It's just that TACS will be gradually integrated into the GSM format in Britain at this time, and there will be no further development in the future.

But as the analog signal technology in the 1G era, these are enough.

If you look at the overall situation, you will find that the communication formats of several communication operators of Neon are different and incompatible with each other.

And now mobile phones are all contract phones bundled with operators, which means that mobile phones are not compatible with each other.

Well, the closed gameplay between Little Days has been introverted from the very beginning.

It is precisely because of the incompatibility of signals with each other, which stumps the remaining communication operators.

Fortunately for IDO, its signal format is the same as that of NTT, and the TZ-802 mobile phones produced by NTT can be sold directly in the business hall.

Then develop the mobile communication business quickly, even if the base station does not cover the whole, it does not matter, at least Tokyo, Osaka and other metropolises have been built.

But the DDI that adopts the TACS standard is miserable, because the only two mobile phones on the market do not support the TACS format.

There is no way to customize their own mobile phone, which is still under development. In order to quickly enter the market, DDI can only find Shirakawa Electric.

Why are you looking for Baichuan Electric?It is to ask whether Baichuan Electric will accept the commission to produce mobile phones in TACS format.

Faced with the customer who came to your door, how could Bai Chuanfeng not agree?
He will not be as short-sighted as other friends, deliberately restricting the development of IDO.

Don't forget that in addition to Kyocera, DDI's shareholders also include Sony and Mitsubishi Corporation.

These three companies either make electronic products themselves, or the groups behind them have related businesses.

Even if Shirakawa Electric does not accept this order, they will be able to produce their own mobile phones within a year and a half at most.

So without much hesitation, Bai Chuanfeng agreed to DDI's commission and asked Bai Chuan Electric to start producing mobile phones that support TACS.

These mobile phones are compatible with both GSM and TACS formats, which can be regarded as a full Netcom mobile phone to some extent.

In fact, there is no technical difference between the contract mobile phone and the full Netcom mobile phone. The difference is that the corresponding frequency band is activated by swiping the program and it is exactly the same.

So this is not difficult for Shirakawa Electric, it is just a matter of modifying the program.

For Shirakawa Electric, it is profitable to sell NUCT to itself, and it is also profitable to sell to DDI.

Since it is all about making money, who is not selling it to?

In terms of price, it is 43 yen to the outside world. Of course, the purchase price at DDI is definitely not so much.

Baichuan Electric's profit source is part of the whole machine, and at the same time, in DDI's tariff package, Baichuan Electric can also get a part of the commission.

This is the mainstream cooperation method between contract phones and operators, but because the mobile business is an emerging industry, some areas are not perfect.

For example, after seeing that DDI adopted Shirakawa Electric's mobile phone, IDO also came to the door.

They have the same idea as DDI, and they want Shirakawa Electric to help them produce mobile phones that support the NTT format, which is the HICAP communication standard.

It is understandable that IDO came to the door, after all, he had no choice.

But your IDO is mixed with NTT. You asked me, Shirakawa Electric, to produce mobile phones that support the HICAP format. Does NTT have any objections?
This is being a tauren face to face. To be honest, Bai Chuanfeng is a little hesitant.

After all, doing so may offend NTT, which produces mobile phones at home.

Now that foreign mobile phones support the NTTT format, won't the market for mobile phones produced by ourselves be compressed?
But after IDO came up with NTT's authorization agreement, Bai Chuanfeng didn't hesitate any more.

After all, IDO is an independent operator, and there are major shareholders such as Toyota Motor and Tokyo Electric Power behind it.

What it signed with NTT is only a format adoption agreement, which does not include such content as the mobile phones that must be produced by NTT.

Therefore, from a legal point of view, which manufacturer's mobile phone IDO uses is its own freedom.

That's why IDO also came to the door, and the reason why IDO chose Shirakawa Electric is very simple.

That is Baichuan Electric's One series mobile phones, which are superior to the NTT mobile phones of the same period in terms of technological advancement and aesthetic appearance.

This mobile phone, endorsed by Akina Nakamori, quickly aroused enthusiastic responses in the society because of its stylish appearance.

After all, one is more than 600 grams, and the other is nearly one kilogram, so the visual difference is very obvious.

So what the public likes, then the operator will launch what the trend.

Therefore, whether it is DDI or IDO, they all move closer to Shirakawa Electric.

After agreeing to IDO to provide NTT-format mobile phones, Bai Chuanfeng simply went to talk with NTT's president Hisashi Shino.

He hoped that Baichuan Electric could produce and support mobile phones with full Netcom in three formats: HICAP, GSM, and TACS.

In return, NTT can also produce mobile phones that support other operators' communication standards.

Unfortunately, NTT rejected Bai Chuanfeng's proposal.

As the big brother of Neon's domestic communication industry and a well-established state-owned enterprise, NTT disdains the market share of NUCT and DDI.

Well, NTT has proud capital, and its future prospects are indeed broader than the others in terms of basic disk.

At the same time, internal conservative forces are also playing a role. They still cling to their background as a state-owned capital, and somewhat look down on other private companies later.

Since NTT does not agree, there is no way that Shirakawa Electric can only produce mobile phones that support the NTT format alone, and can only be sold in IDO's franchised stores.

There cannot be any kind of channel in other places to directly sell NTT format mobile phones in the market.

In addition, Baichuan Electric can also produce mobile phones that support both GSM and TACS formats.

Because of two-way authorization, IDO can also produce similar mobile phones in the future.

As for how customers choose, it depends on which mobile phone is better.

In short, the current mobile communication market is a mess, the formats are incompatible with each other and scattered.

The same is true for hardware. There are only two types of mobile phones, but they are divided into three categories.

But NTT may not have thought of that, because Shirakawa Electric's mobile phones are too popular.

After many customers bought NTT-format One series mobile phones from IDO, they turned around and inserted the calling cards issued by NTT.

In this way, it is possible to use Shirakawa Electric's mobile phone with NTT's package.

As a middleman, IDO found that its communication packages did not sell much, but it shipped a lot of mobile phones.

Although the current business hall is a contract phone, there is no mandatory requirement to buy a mobile phone package, or to buy a mobile phone package.

This is the game of later generations, and now the mobile business has just started, so there are many loopholes.

It is precisely because of this reason that the strange phenomenon of buying a mobile phone from IDO but plugging in an NTT calling card is caused.

Not long after, NTT discovered the abnormality, and began to require the IDO package fee to be bundled with the mobile phone one-to-one, and NTT itself began to implement it.

However, IDO procrastinated and refused to implement it, because the business hall only sells mobile phones, and it is also profitable, and it is quite fragrant.

Seeing IDO happily acting as a second-tier dealer, NTT was very angry.

So it threatens to stop opening the NTT communication standard to IDO if IDO does not implement it.

If you don’t let me use IDO with a stalk, I’ll throw myself into the embrace of GSM at worst, and never communicate with each other again.

Choked by IDO Bachelor's reply, NTT really didn't dare to threaten too much.

But after all, this is short-term quick money, and the capital behind IDO is not short-sighted.

Doing so will only make Shirakawa Electric and NTT cheaper in vain, but IDO's own communication market share has been slow to increase.

Therefore, after the Yitong reform, the contract machines of each business hall began to be bundled one-to-one.

Since then, this phenomenon has been greatly reduced.

However, although there was a disturbance, the popularity of Shirakawa Electric's mobile phone can also be seen.

Even IDO is discussing to abandon the NTT format and prepare to join forces with DDI to fight against NTT and NUCT.

(End of this chapter)