Galaxy Domination Guide

Chapter 94 Obstruction
Bai Zhongqi's expression didn't change much. He was clear about the image and reputation of several major telecom service providers in China.The combined number of employees of these powerful monopoly enterprises is as many as millions, plus the personnel in the surrounding industrial chain, the scale is quite large.The most powerful telecom operators make hundreds of millions of profits every day lying down, and the others are exactly the same.Covering a large number of users, poor service, and low quality have always been criticized by people.There have always been free market people who have been fixated on this point and demanded that private competition be strengthened, but the core of it is still profiteering.

The technology of Xuntian.com is subversive and even destructive. It directly destroys the existing form of telecommunications services, and it is an apocalypse for the industry.

But for these monopoly enterprises, Xuntian.com also has a huge temptation for them.Construction costs, development costs, and maintenance costs are almost all reduced to zero. These companies retain necessary components such as marketing teams and customer service teams. Even if support fees drop, they still make money.

In Xiang Fei's office, Sui Rong, a general manager from a monopoly telecom service provider, sat there with a hypocritical and helpless expression, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

"Director Xiang, it's not that we oppose the country's introduction of such excellent technology. It's tricky. Our company has 57 employees, and millions of related personnel. Other companies are not as large as ours, but they are definitely not small. If you rashly go to Xuntian.com, millions of people will be laid off. What a shock it is for the country."

Xiang Fei was relatively calm, drinking tea, sitting behind his desk and looking at the general manager in charge of transformation and transition, said: "That's why the country has set up a special office for planning and carrying out transformation and transition. I asked you to come here, and I also hope to hear what plans your company has."

Sui Rong immediately handed over the document to Xiang Fei and said, "Yes, yes, please trouble Director Xiang and the leaders. This is the preliminary plan proposed by the company."

Xiang Fei took a general look, frowned tightly, and said: "The free access of Xuntian.com has become a paid access. Basically, the services you originally provided have been changed under different names, and you plan to give Xuntian Internet speed down?"

Sui Rong immediately explained: "We have conducted research on speed reduction. The speed of 100Tbps is actually not available to ordinary people. Even if the basic speed of 2Gbps is provided, it is enough to meet the needs of most users, and the user experience is not the same as before. The network can be compared. As for the higher speed, it can be provided to enterprises and academic institutions in need. According to different services, different tariffs will be charged. "

Xiang Fei retorted: "Research? You are conducting research based on current and previous experience. We are going to take a new path, and the previous experience is not of high reference value."

He paused, pointed to the number on the plan, and said: "With your tariff standard, the monthly cost of ordinary users is not much lower than before, and the cost of advanced services is even more than before."

Sui Rong said again: "Director Xiang, there are tens of thousands of people in our company, as well as related industrial personnel. So many people have to eat. What's more, the company is still a big profit and tax household for the country. , This industry has shrunk seriously, and it will have a huge negative impact on the country's economic strategy and finances. We are also considering the laws of the market economy and acting in accordance with the principles of economic development."

Xiang Fei frowned and asked, "Your employees need to eat? Then why are there layoffs of up to 10 people in this plan?"

Sui Rong said: "This is also normal, Director Xiang, the Sky Survey Network is a revolutionary technology, and it can achieve nationwide coverage only through the space-based communication facilities provided by the Iridium people. We don't need to build any more base stations. There is no need for an engineering construction team, and some other related positions have become unnecessary. The country is now streamlining its troops and streamlining its administration to improve administrative efficiency, so it is not possible to support idlers, right? But our company will not ignore these employees Don’t ask, we will provide very favorable treatment, and hope that the state will allow us to invest in subsidiaries in other industries to accommodate such a large number of employees. Of course, it is difficult to accommodate such a large number of laid-off employees only by the company’s own strength , This cannot be done without the support of the state.”

Xiang Fei's face turned completely cold, and he said: "Manager Sui, your company really has a good plan. When Xuntianwang was launched, you cut at least half of the cost, and then laid off employees to save labor costs. In this way, Not only did your company not lose money, but it also made a lot of money. After ruining this mess, leave it to the country and the government to solve it for you, and let you take all the benefits in the end, right?"

Sui Rong was not afraid of Xiang Fei's questioning, he also said aggrievedly: "My Director Xiang, what you said is that our company is a state-owned enterprise, and it obeys the command and talks about politics, but if the enterprise wants to develop and the industry wants to progress, we must You have to follow the laws of the market, right? If the company makes a profit, it is also the profit of the country and society. How can we take advantage of it? I am a middle-level and high-level cadre in the head office, with a monthly salary of just over [-]. Why are management salaries so low? Everyone is dedicated to the country and has absolutely no selfishness."

Xiang Fei never believed in Sui Rong's nonsense. Maybe on the surface, Sui Rong and other high-level companies do not have much income, but these monopoly companies are themselves interest groups, and they can generate benefits just by owning their internal status in the company. , this benefit is not necessarily economic, but it is absolutely impossible to exclude the economic aspect.

Xiang Fei was also unwilling to waste words with Sui Rong, but the proposals he met with people from other companies were basically the same.Xiang Fei also sneered. These companies are used to being domineering in the industry, and they are public goods that the country cannot live without, so their bargaining power is also very strong.

No one wants to cut their own flesh at this time, but they all look at the pie falling from the sky, thinking about how to share the food.What does the country really need, what does society need, and how is it beneficial to people? Maybe there are people in these monopoly companies who worry about the country and the people, but the power of interest groups is so strong that they will naturally oppose anything that endangers their interests.

Xiang Fei is also very troubled. Country C has basically reached an agreement with the Iridium United Empire in terms of space development and star alliance government. What is stuck in the process is the transformation and transition.This is not just the case in the telecommunications industry. Basically every powerful industry has similar problems, but to different degrees.

In terms of electricity, the Star Alliance proposes to completely phase out the burning of fossil fuels, first to abolish coal, and then to abolish oil and natural gas.Unify nuclear fusion as an energy source, and at the same time completely change the power transmission mode, and become a remote wireless power transmission and transformation technology provided by Iridium.From infrastructure to operation, the transformation and transition of the power system is also full of obstacles.

The situation of the three barrels of oil is slightly better, and a large amount of fuel oil is still needed during the transitional period. The newer refining equipment provided by Starlink will expand the refining and product line of the three barrels of oil, and the three barrels of oil will usher in a short period of time. period of rapid growth.In the future, it is expected that three barrels of oil will still be developed for oil and gas, but the products will be changed to provide carbon and other products to Iridium and Country C.

The steel and smelting industry is almost in the cold winter. The neuron production line will turn a small steelmaking plant with perhaps 100 employees into an existence with an annual output of hundreds of millions of tons of steel. All equipment and technologies in the smelting industry will be eliminated, and a large number of workers Also need a way out.

Thinking of this, Xiang Fei became extremely troubled. Joining the Union means a great opportunity for country C, but the challenge is also quite huge.If the problem of transformation and transition is not handled well, the long-term construction achievements of country C may be destroyed.And country C is even less likely to back down on joining the union, and can only move forward bravely.

(End of this chapter)