Chapter 594: Free Wi-fi!
Trantor: <i>Min</i>?Editor: Rundi
There were previously two telmunication providers from New Zend that provided Xin’s cellr service, but followed by Celestial Trade’s quantummunication satelliteunch that provided free wifi service to all of Xin, the two foreignpetitors’ businesses there were instantly crashed.
Who would be willing to pay if there is a free equivalent service?
While 20 Mbps speed was not the fastest internationally, it was enough. 20 ping oftency was an impable experience for most users. A value lower than that would be indistinguishable by the naked eye.
A quantummunication satellite has a life of 5-10 years with a cost around 100-200 million USD, Celestial Trade was expected tounch 36 satellites to the geosynchronous orbit. Combined with the cost ofunch, Celestial Trade’s yearly aerospace budget was around 1.5 billion USD.
Because of the scarce amount of resources in the apocalypse, Jiang Chen didn’t want Jiang Lin to waste his time producing this, therefore he transferred the quantummunication satellite production line to the modern world. Considering that the quantummunication technology must be kept confidential, the production line became currently the most automated product line in Future Group with an automation rate of 85%pleted by drones.
Although the design caused the cost to the production line to double, it decreased thebor cost in producing the satellite.
From a long term perspective, the investment was worthwhile!
But regardless, anything project rted to aerospace still burned through money.
Perhaps when the space elevator is built, the situation would be better.
With the foreign telmunication providers exiting the market, Jiang Chen used the principle of not wasting anything and purchased the New Zend Tel subsidiary in Xin with a floor price of 210 million USD and took over all the talents and assets. The business was restructured and merged into Celestial Trade’s Web project team to provide inte port services to Xin.
Due to the limitation in number, quantummunication satellite functionality only acted as a giant router. Although this “router” could use the quantum entanglement effect to “observe” the weak electromaic signals tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Earth in order to achieve the data exchange between satellite and conventional cellphones, but ultimately, the router still must be connected with the signal stations on the ground.
If Xin’s user wanted to visit a UA website, although they used the satellite, the data still must be transferred from the signal stations through the submarine cable.
The innovation of the quantummunication satellite exist in that it changed the conventional “user-cable (or Wi-Fi + cable)-server” data transferring method to “user-satellite-server” And the ability to ept user upload data could be viewed an upgrade to Google’s global Wi-Fi n.
When all 36 of Celestial Trade’s satellites ascend and the “Wi-FI signal” covered the entire Earth, it would be time when the submarine cable start to exit from history.
Disregarding the technological aspect, while Celestial Trade’s cheap meteorological service didn’t make the Xin citizen feel any convenience, the free Wi-Fi n quickly gathered overwhelmingly positive support. Whether you were home or fishing on the sea, as long as you were within the borders of Xin, you could connect with the Wi-Fi signal.
From the start, when Celestial Trade announced to Xin through the satellite that it will provide free Wi-Fi to the entire region, the international experts were quick to dismiss the idea. But when they discovered Celestial Trade really did it, the experts and professors were dumbfounded. All the university and research institute almost blew up Celestial Trade’s phone.
Celestial Trade’s response was suave.
Themunication didn’t exceed the speed of light.The exact signal broadcasting method is rted to trade secrets and will not be revealed.
What’s funny was, the era-defining technology did not scare the professors and experts first, but the telmunication providers thousands of kilometers away.
Although the satellite must rely on a group port to provide user with Wi-Fi service, the port didn’t have to be located domestically, it could be ced anywhere on Earth.
Therefore, Celestial Trade only need to maintain arge enough port to be able to use the quantummunication satellite to provide Wi-Fi to any region with signal coverage. And the users will be connecting from Xin’s port and it’ll have nothing to do with the country the user is located in.
It was terrible news for some people!
Free Wi-Fi? Full coverage? It is rubbish!
CTV and other medias made statements overnight questioning Celestial Trade’s free Wi-Fi project could perhaps vite thews of neighboring countries. Even if Liu family wanted to help out, they couldn’t. The telmunication industry was connected with too many people’s interest, even as the Liu family, they could not stand up against the opposing voice alone.
When the state media made theirment, Liu Xiangguo called Jiang Chen.
“What you didcked consideration.”
Lacked consideration?
When Jiang Chen picked up the phone, he was a bit confused. He didn’t remember starting any projects in Han, could it be Ning Jianhua that did something wrong?
When he finished listening to Liu Xiangguo, he realized it was not that at all. So he began to exin with a dumbfounded emotion. “The free Wi-Fi will only be avable in Xin as part of the benefits to Xin citizens; it will not be avable in other countries. We have currently entered in an agreement with Atria’s telmunication provider to provide monthly Wi-Fi service at a cost of 15 AUD”
15 AUD was approximately 11.6 USD which waspetitive for the Atria citizens with an average cost of data service of 60 AUD. Only a small area could enjoy unlimited, high speed inte service because of the NBN project.
Liu Xiangguo was somewhat relieved when he heard Jiang Chen’s exnation.
“Let me ask another question. In the agreement with Australia, which port are they using?”
“It could be Xin or it could be Australia, but the Australia telmunication provider did suggest that we can leave the port maintenance work to them, so we did just that. It is not a small cost to maintain the web port.” Jiang Chen sunk into his chair.He habitually spun the pen in his right hand while holding the phone with his left hand and exined to Uncle Liu.
He was still confused since Celestial Trade had no active business in Hua. The only two international projects were the civil war between Moro and Country F and the Wi-Fi service in Australia.
“So you’re saying, if Australia people wanted to use Celestial Trade’s Wi-Fi, it still must go through the port of Australiatelmunication provider?”
It was funny since neither Liu Xiangguo nor Jiang Chen understood the technical knowledge behind this; theirmunication sounded like both were pretending that they knew.
“In theory, yes.” Jiang Chen forcefully nodded.
While he wanted to add that it was not necessary, he got rid of the idea after giving it some thought.
Liu Xiangguoughed when he received confirmation from Jiang Chen.
“I see. Now I’m assured. But your Wi-Fi… just do it outside if you know what I mean.”
“Don’t you want free inte?” Jiang Chen asked with an odd expression.
“Do you think the Liu familycks the money to pay for inte?”
Jiang Chen took a moment to process and understood what the elder referred to, so he started tough along.
“That makes sense.”
After catching up with Uncle Liu, he hung up the phone.
With Future Group’s billion to support them, the Liu family really didn’t need worry about the family’s finances. As long as Future Group didn’t do anything too over the line, the Liu family’s power could easily deflect any criticism. Therefore, they could have the inflow for a long time…
A few hundred dors in inte bills? It was like a drop in the vast sea.