Chapter 542 Iridium

A US Gulfstream 5 business jet with a gold-painted appearance and looks very packaged, lightly crossing the blue sky. This world's first ultra-long-range business jet can reach 12,000 kilometers without stopping, can easily cross the ocean and state, and the speed is as high as Mach 0.8. It takes only seven or eight hours to fly from the United States to Hong Kong from the Pacific Ocean.

Yang Xing is now sitting upright in the middle of this spacious business jet that can carry 19 people, but the fragrance in front of him is obviously not related to business. Ding Wenli, Si Duo Junhuā and others are wearing stewardess uniforms and dancing around steel pipes. If bystanders see it, they will definitely envy his blessings. However, Yang Xing's face is ashen, and his breathing is rapid but still motionless. It is obvious that the pain is more than happiness.

Only by pulling closer can Yang Xing see clearly that sitting posture was forced to sit in the sofa. His hands and feet were tied firmly to the sofa by several ropes. He could only look at a group of beautiful clothes in front of him, with large areas of smooth skin looming. With the dance music, his waist twisted like a willow spread on the ground. He even saw the shadows on the top of the big tui under the short stewardess uniform skirt.

Such a man is enough to make a man crazy and can't see it. Yang Xing only felt that his lower body was about to explode. But what was even more painful was that his spear was falling into a tenderness, and several flexible tongues were hovering on it. It could lock his **yù yù while he was sucking and sucking. This was a skill that he had only been practicing for a long time. This was naturally a bliss when he could move. But for him who was still moving, the suppressed bliss became the greatest torture.

What's worse is that there are two more figures in the pilot uniforms among the group of NV people who danced pole dancers. Yang Xing couldn't help but be beating. Shi Meiheng and Xiao Qin are the head and co-pilots of the plane. They are dancing here, and the cockpit is not empty? Even if the "Gulfstream" 5 has an unmanned driving system, he still thinks it's terrible that NV people are crazy.

Speaking of which, this is also his own fault. After the engagement banquet in Boao, Hainan, the NV people who were given the title of his fiancée were also devoted to him. He cared about their hard work for their respective careers this year, specially prepared an engagement leave for them, canceled most of their work itineraries, and after the World Conference, he flew to Greece on the Aegean Sea with Qunmei, and had a good vacation and relax on a small island he bought.

Compared with the Caribbean Sea, the blue style of the Aegean Sea is good at playing the game, but Greece is the birthplace of European culture, with a long history and close to the prosperous place of European countries. The Americans relaxed there and had no time to enjoy themselves. Originally, Yang Xing wanted to accompany them to have a holiday until the end of Chun Festival. However, an urgent news came from the United States that forced him to let go of the Americans and fly to the United States to deal with it himself. It was a matter in the United States that made him perform this sweet torture on the plane.

Yang Xing flew to the United States to deal with a acquisition business. He was able to take action personally because he had the US branch closely monitored it. Now there are major changes, so he naturally has to notify him to deal with it. This business is that the US Iridium Communications Corporation announced that it would go bankrupt and be auctioned as a whole. Speaking of Iridium Communications, Yang Xing had a relationship with it. When he met Lin Jiana for the first time in Hong Kong with the pseudonym, he used the contact information to rely on Iridium mobile phone. At that time, he was very impressed by its confidentiality and wide signal coverage.

He went to the United States from Wenrou Village and personally presided over the acquisition of Iridium's bankrupt assets because he was attracted to Iridium's largest asset - 88 Iridium satellites. The Iridium system was actually a very good creative idea for Motorola at the time. Its appearance subverted the situation where mobile communications had to rely on ground base stations to transmit mobile signals. Instead, 66 satellites (88 satellites were prepared, several of which were launched as backup satellites, and the rest were used as inventory preparations) to move the mobile communication base station to the sky.

This unique way of using low-orbit satellites to form a communication network has truly achieved the ultimate goal that mobile communication has always pursued, namely, 5 "w" (any), that is, anyone (.) uses any method (w) to communicate.

Therefore, in 1998, the American magazine "Popular Science" rated Iridium technology as one of the top 100 technologies of the year. In 1998, Iridium was officially commercialized and looked bright.

But the facts have proved that advanced technology may not necessarily bring wealth. Iridium was designed ten years ago, but this decade was also the decade of the big explosion of mobile communications. Ground mobile communication technology has developed for three generations, but the price of communication has dropped by more than half. Now that smartphones are emerging, the data requirements for mobile communications are higher. Watching online videos and making mobile video calls on mobile are no longer a dream. In this case, the transmission data is only 2k, and the communication quality is not as good as that of CDMA mobile phones, but the price is as high as US$3,500 per Iridium satellite phone?

Iridium’s biggest selling point is global communications, but how many people will roam to areas like the Sahara Desert and the Arctic Pole? Personal mobile calls do not mean purchasing an expensive and bulky satellite phone. With the efforts of mobile operators from various countries, most cities and villages in the world can use less than $200 to open calls.

At the same time, the organizational structure and financial situation of Iridium company húnluàn also made it difficult. In order to reduce risks, Motorola actually turned Iridium into a partnership. As a result, Iridium has partners from more than a dozen countries. Each board meeting is like a small-scale United Nations meeting. Everyone needs to wear simultaneous interpretation headphones to discuss. As a result, any resolution discussion becomes lengthy and delayed, seriously affecting the making of major decisions.

Iridium has invested a total of US$3.4 billion and has borrowed a lot of debts. The monthly interest rate of US$5 billion in debt is tens of millions. Iridium's progress in developing its customers is far lower than expected. According to the initial consideration, at least 650,000 users were needed to barely offset the profit and loss, but in fact, it has only developed 55,000 users. In China, it originally wanted to develop 10,000 users, but in the end it was less than 1,000. With such a business level, it is a miracle that it could delay it until now to go bankrupt.

On March 15 last year, Iridium officially announced bankruptcy, but the 66 satellites it had already been launched into space. This is a big asset. The first Iridium company was ambitious to sell satellites and exchange them for a little face. It opened the satellite price to a low price of US$10 million, which is only equivalent to 20 yuan of investment. However, the cruel reality is that it is still unpopular. Even its boss Motorola is discouraged and is ready to pull these satellites into the atmosphere and burn them.

Yang Xing, who had been waiting for the opportunity, was finally ready to take action. In fact, he had long been greedy for these satellites of Iridium. As a rebirth, he knew very well that even if he didn't take action, someone would still stop Iridium from becoming a meteor, which was the US side. In his previous life, it was the US side who provided a five-year, $36 million contract that completely saved Iridium.

The US side is willing to rescue Iridium because it is attracted by Iridium's technology. The biggest technical feature of Iridium mobile communication system is that not only satellites can send communication signals to the ground, but also achieve global communication through relay between satellites. For the US side, this is similar to the satellite relay communication system they are using. The system has 15 billion US dollars in the military. Now the bankrupt Iridium can handle it for only tens of millions of dollars. Why not?

But Yang Xing doesn't want the US side to take advantage of this. Only when the US side can use it, so don't China side need it more? What's more, Iridium is the key to the success of the "Star Computing" plan in Yang Xing's mind. When he used Iridium to talk to Lin Jiana, he moved his mind to take this technology that looked like a ji.

While Yang Xing asked his subordinates to monitor Iridium, he also made a comprehensive foundation for the system and understood the advantages and disadvantages of Iridium. One of the major mistakes made by Iridium is that he priced Iridium mobile phones and call fees too high, and there was the idea of ​​rushing to recover costs, but this was undoubtedly a poison to quench thirst for Iridium. According to the normal communication market strategy, the promotion of new mobile phone technology must be appropriate, and if necessary, he must lose money to gain publicity. However, Yang Xing believes that with his cost advantages, it should not be a big problem to reduce the cost of Iridium mobile phone to US$500. With the marketing methods learned from ordinary mobile operators, it is not a big problem to use some gimmicks such as accessing the Internet and sending phone calls, and it is not a big problem to reopen the market again.

Through commercial espionage and other means, Yang Xing has cleared the main energy of the Iridium system. Although the Iridium satellite design did not consider too many data transmission needs at the beginning, it is a high-tech product in the United States after all, with a service life of 5-8 years. Yang Xing has the impression that it is OK to use it for a few years. When he was reborn, an Iridium satellite collided with a scrap Russian satellite, which was 09.

Yang Xing has asked his subordinates to develop a software that can increase the data transmission capacity of Iridium satellites by ten times. Although it is still not as good as ordinary dial-up Internet access, it is feasible to transmit some small documents. The characteristics of Iridium global communications mean that "star computing" can not only use ground fiber and other networks to transmit data, but also use Iridium to solve the problem of difficulty in accessing the Internet in remote areas if necessary. Also in the OPC plan, the problem of accessing the Internet in areas with scarce access facilities such as Africa can also be solved through Iridium. In addition, Iridium mobile phones are still valuable for exploration, scientific research, resource mining, military and other units. Yang Xing believes that his future will still be bright after taking over Iridium.
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