Chapter 484 The goal is actually 4G
Undoubtedly, Yang Xing proposed the reason for building a mobile Internet. The heaviest weight was put on the balance in the minds of the officials in charge of the Ministry of Information and the State Council. After all, the just-emerging Internet boom in China was facing the collapse of the Nasdaq in the United States. It was still unclear about the future of the Internet. Yang Xing, who has both Star Network and Hong Kong Telecom under his command, and is also a partner with Virgin Group in the United Kingdom, is definitely an authoritative person in the communications industry. His suggestion to use wireless networks to replace complicated and labor-intensive wired network laying has indeed scratched their itch.
In fact, as the first company in China to promote wireless Internet technology, Nebula Electronics has achieved many achievements in the wifi field as a member of the wifi alliance. It has developed a built-in wifi chip that allows laptops, mobile phones, and mobile digital devices to connect mobile networking. The s smartphone launched by Stardust Communication last year can even realize mobile office, online video playback and online games in the wifi coverage area. It is like a mobile data terminal, allowing many people to see the bright prospects of the future mobile Internet.
However, the weakness of wifi technology is also very obvious. Although it is convenient to form a network and is low in cost, it has poor mobile performance, small transmission power, and narrow coverage. It is considered that it can only form a local area network at a short distance. At most it is just a supplement to traditional wired networks. It is not realistic to replace wired networks on a large scale, but it is very different if 3g mobile communication technology is adopted. Since the 3g standard comes from mobile communication technology, the power of mobile communication base stations all over the world is far greater than the wifi signal power. Among the three internationally recognized 3g standards, wcdma has the fastest speed and can reach a download rate of 3m. cdma2000 and td-cdma are also claimed to be able to reach a speed of more than 1m. Compared with the Wif. technology that has just passed at this time, it is nominally up to 11m, and the data download level of at most 1 and 2m is not inferior in actual applications.
The most important thing is that as long as there is a mobile signal, you can enter the 3g mobile Internet network. This range is far beyond wifi and is no longer far from truly realizing the goal of accessing the Internet anytime and anywhere in the world. This is also one of the main advantages of countries vigorously promoting 3g. In Stardust Communication's advertisement promoting S2 "glorious" mobile phone, the protagonist of the advertisement goes all the way to download music, watch videos, chat online, etc., especially when he can receive and send emails online at a height of thousands of meters. The camera of handling official business has caused countless people to be excited and excited, believing that this represents the prospect of future information life.
In addition to this reason, Yang Xing strongly advocated the launch of 3g as soon as possible and there was also the reason why he was ulterior motives and could not say it. In his mind, 3g communication technology is actually just a top station on the long journey of mobile Internet access. In his previous life, 3g technology was just a plate of ice cream cake - it looked good and fell apart when used, and it was very scammed in practical applications!
After the 3G license was released in 2009, the domestic td-scdma signal was very unstable, and it often fluctuated between 10k and 100k. It is known as the worst 3G Internet access technology. The other two companies also had 50 steps and a hundred steps. At the highest, they could reach a speed of 500k and 600k, which was a big explosion in character. What's more important is that the 3G Internet access fee is too high. The cheapest Internet access fee in a year is also several thousand yuan, and the data capacity is also limited. The wired network of the same era not only reached 2m, 4m or even 10m Internet access speed, but also required a price of a few hundred to 1,000 yuan to be able to access the Internet unlimitedly for an unlimited year-round Internet access technology. Moreover, the WiFi wireless Internet access technology has also been fully promoted and improved. As long as it is not a business person flying all over the world, the 3G mobile Internet access technology is not as satisfactory as imagined.
This is also the reason why 3G smartphones are rampant before Yang Xing's rebirth, but any 3G phone will have a built-in Wi-Fi chip. In his opinion, the 3G standard is still behind the requirements of the information age, and the progress of technology is often much faster than people expected. His vision has long since jumped out of the 3G standard and turned to the next generation of wireless communication technology - 4g.
Yang Xing's consideration is naturally reasonable. Xingdou Research Institute once used its neighbors Japan and South Korea as an example to explain that the most important problem that mobile Internet needs to solve in the future is the Internet speed. As a country with extremely developed mobile communications and Internet access, although these two countries have not yet launched the 3G standard, they have launched the 2.5 version of the CDMA standard based on the CDMA standard. It is similar to the upgraded version of GPRRS using GSM technology. The Internet speed is greatly accelerated and it is called 3G.
With the maturity of mobile Internet access, the bandwidth of Internet access has been greatly expanded. Mobile operators in the two countries have spent the first time launching a variety of value-added services. Japan and South Korea are now launching mobile phones that use digital TV playback technology, which can directly watch live TV and listen to radio on their mobile phones, but also develop various Internet access services such as online viewing videos and multi-messages that transmit pictures and videos. The network bandwidth that has just been increased has been squeezed out in a blink of an eye, so these two countries are the most enthusiastic about launching the 3G network.
Yang Xing understood with the help of rebirth experience that with the development of mobile terminal platforms such as smartphones and netbooks, the Internet traffic required by online offices and online games will only force communication operators to continuously increase the bandwidth of wireless Internet access. At that time, one m of bandwidth can only be considered as the start. The era of measuring wireless Internet access bandwidth in g is about to come.
Therefore, the commercialization of 3g, which is highly anticipated by the communications industry, was not as successful as imagined. In addition to the concept of mobile Internet access in Japan, South Korea and other countries, even in the United States, most people still regard mobile phones as purely making calls in the era of Yang Xing's rebirth. Many people's first choice when using their mobile phones to access the Internet at high speed is not to use 3g, but to choose wifi. There are two Internet access modes in a mobile phone. The relatively advanced 3g technology is often regarded as a backup tire, which is because of the weird reality caused by the low 3g network speed and high tariffs.
Therefore, in Yang Xing's mind, the golden age of mobile Internet access is coming. It will adopt a next-generation communication data transmission technology that combines 3g and wifi technology, so that he can truly enjoy high-speed Internet browsing web pages and download music and videos anywhere on earth - 4g. Of course, outsiders may be shocked to hear it. After all, the 3g standard has just been certified, and Yang Xing actually set his mind on the next-generation technology. However, with his rebirth memory and the huge intelligence network in his hand, he knew that he was lucky to know that a similar technology prototype had been released, and its name was Wimax.
Wimax (worldwide interoperability for microwave access), that is, global microwave interconnection access technology, is actually not novel. It was originally developed for the weaknesses of wifi's short transmission distance, low speed and low security. Many characteristics are similar to wifi, and are mainly used to provide the last kilometer wireless broadband access method for urban local area networks. The main difference from wifi is that it requires a licensed wireless frequency band, and the transmission power is much greater than wifi, so the maximum transmission distance can reach about 50 kilometers, the transmission rate is also fast, and it can reach a bandwidth of at least 45m, which is enough to leave other wireless Internet technologies far behind in the era. It is considered to be an advanced technology with great prospects.
In 2000, the technology was successfully tested, and Yang Xing immediately realized its development potential. He remembered that this technology was accepted by the International Telecommunications Union as the fourth 3G standard in 2007 and was regarded as a strong competitor to the next generation of communication technology 4G. However, because traditional communication operators have long controlled the industrial market, the Wimax technology itself has not been able to solve the access problem in high-speed mobile environments for a long time, and its development has been poor.
But in this life it entered Yang Xing's sight and his fate changed greatly. Yang Xing acquired Hong Kong Telecom not long ago. Although he was rushing to put it on the shelves, it was unexpected to get him a communications operation license in Hong Kong. He is also considering what 3g standard to choose. In addition, the digital home solution demonstrated at the Zhongxing International World Conference last year has pointed out a clear path for many consumer electronic products produced by Nebula Electronics, using the network to connect them, expanding from smart homes to smart cities and even the world, and wireless network technology is the backbone that supports all this.
The perfect combination of mobile communication and wireless Internet access undoubtedly made Yang Xing very excited. He gave his high-demand personal digital assistant, such as MIA, smartphone, Internet access laptop and even planned tablets, etc., which rely on Wimax technology to both access the Internet at high speed and connect to the Internet at high speed. It will be a great help for building Yang Xing's "cloud" goal of putting backend data processing and storage on remote servers in Yang Xing's mind. Therefore, in Hong Kong, a Wimax experimental network is being secretly laid out, and Yang Xing is preparing to use this as a basis to sprint for himself to set the next generation 4G standards.
In view of this, Yang Xingcai proposed to ask the three major domestic telecom operators to choose a 3g standard solution. Because no matter which one chooses, it is of little significance to him. With the strength of Stardust Communication, it can also provide products and services that satisfy them. But he secretly laid the groundwork and required that no matter which communications provider chooses a terminal product, it must be compatible with wifi and wimax technologies. He also demonstrated the advantages of wimax on the spot at the meeting, which made the representatives of the Ministry of Information and Industry and several major communications providers dumbfounded. He took this opportunity to propose that China hopes that Wimax will be the industry standard as soon as possible.
Finally, as Yang Xing made contributions to promoting the formulation of the national 3G standard, everyone also gave him a big gift package. He agreed to greatly reduce the settlement fee between Hong Kong Telecom and the Mainland Communications Network, which made Hong Kong Telecom a step ahead of other competitors. Due to the monopoly of the domestic communications market, after Hong Kong's return, Hong Kong local and mainland communications still enjoy foreign treatment and high fees. Hong Kong Telecom can obtain the same tariff standards as domestic communications providers, which naturally saves a lot of costs. Everyone gets the needs of this meeting, and everyone is really happy.
Chapter completed!