Seryosha is a man of his word, and the $200,000 he promised to hand over to the Voronezh Institute of Communications Sciences will soon arrive, and the institute will immediately place an order with the factory, and after all the products have been produced and tested, Seryosha will go through the channels in his hands and deliver the goods to Italy as quickly as possible, and then to the United States through legal channels.
When Eva received the product, it was already two weeks later.
In order to promote the system, Eva donated the products to her alma mater as an alumnus.
With the approval of the school board, the world's first mobile base station for communication was erected in an open space in the heart of the school.
Since there were only about 100 pagers in the first batch, Eva gave them all to her classmates in the medical school.
After a period of training, the staff responsible for maintaining this system also began to take up their posts one after another, and the first step of the communication system stumbled out.
Harvard University is the most expensive private school in the United States, and the annual tuition fee for each student is almost $60,000, and there are very few of them who rely on scholarships to study the entire college stage, otherwise Eva would not have risked her money on the battlefield to earn her tuition.
As a result, many of the students at the world's most famous university are actually from the wealthy class of the United States.
A pager for less than $100 is not a luxury for many students here.
Coupled with the fact that there are many female students in medical school, especially beautiful girls, the pager of communication has gradually become popular on campus.
So during this period of time, some people in the school began to try their best to get pagers, and some even paid a high price to buy them.
But almost no one is willing to sell their pagers.
For nothing else, in addition to the convenience brought by the pager itself, the built-in Tetris also played a role, this kind of game is quick and easy to use, and almost everyone who plays this game for the first time loves it.
After another half a month, a cargo ship from Taiwan finally docked at the port of Boston, and the first batch of 20,000 pagers produced in Taiwan were transported by truck from the port to Cambridge.
The first experience hall and flagship store on the campus of Harvard University have also been built, and Harvard alumni, who have long been informed of the news, have been waiting at the door of the flagship store almost since midnight, waiting for the pager to be released, which Eva definitely did not expect.
The cost of the products produced in Taiwan has been reduced by almost half, or about $45, and the profit margin for a single product has increased dramatically while the pricing remains the same.
Although she is still a little troubled in school, Eva and her colleagues are very happy with the development.
When the doors of the flagship store opened, the long-awaited customers rushed into the store, and the scene inside the store was as hot as every Black Friday.
However, what these customers did not expect was that there were two novelties in the store at this time, a wireless communication device called N.
However, the price is really expensive, as high as $800 a piece, which keeps many people out.
However, at present, N cannot talk to the landline phone in the school, but can only talk to other N users, which undoubtedly greatly reduces the practicality of N.
However, this is not a technical problem, it is purely a commercial problem.
If you want to get through the communication between N and these fixed phones, Eva must cooperate with these deep-pocketed operators, with the current scale of the system in Harvard University, it is difficult to impress giants like A, so Eva's current strategy is still based on pagers, after all, this mobile instant text messaging function is not available in current phones.
It's still hard to digest 20,000 pagers just by relying on Harvard students, but it doesn't matter, Eva's eyes have long been set on another world-class university in the same city, that is, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a famous science and technology institution that gave birth to countless black technologies.
As a result, following the example of Harvard University, the base station of communication soon covered the campus of MIT.
In order to develop users as soon as possible, Eva has specially opened an installment payment service.
With a down payment of just $10, you can take home a brand new pager, and the introduction of these policies directly led to the explosion of pagers, and soon the next order was placed with the supplier in Taiwan.
The popularity of pagers on the campuses of Harvard University and MIT soon spread to Boston University, which is only across the river from the two institutions.
Although the signal only reached the other side of the river, it did not affect the use of some Boston University students who live on the north bank of the Charles River.
As a result, many urgent users even called to ask for the communication signal to cover more areas as soon as possible.
At this time, the operation department of the newsletter also began to contribute a part of the company's income, and under the guidance of Seryosha, the operation department of the newsletter opened a series of paid value-added services, such as weather forecasts, news, party and real estate information, and even a series of information services close to the lives of students, such as lost and found, second-hand goods trading, etc.
Even the teachers' notices about schoolwork began to be posted on the system, and in this way, the first semi-commercial operation network of communication began to take root in the small city of Cambridge.
However, at this time, Seryosha stopped Eva from expanding.
"Why stop, we're doing a good business now, and I'm confident that we'll have a system covering the whole of Massachusetts in a few months," Eva asked, puzzled.
"Don't get carried away by our current results, we can't get direct access to landlines right now, we can't get around these phone operators, and the amount of money needed to set up a system that covers the whole of the United States is astronomical, and the best thing to do is to work with a strong company, such as A."
Seryosha said calmly. t1706231537: