Chapter 939 The Father of PHS
The PHS project must be promoted quickly in the future. Song Chaoyuan is well aware of the practicality and drawbacks of this product.
To put it bluntly, PHS is just an intermediate product like the current VCD. When mobile phone technology reaches a certain level, the inherent defects of PHS technology will inevitably be replaced by digital mobile phones.
From this point of view, the vitality of PHS in China is not long. Now it is the second half of 1992. After the technology is fully digested and promoted, it will not be officially launched until 1993 at the earliest. In this way, the vitality of PHS technology is no more than ten years at most. In addition, around 1998, new digital mobile phones will appear and start to replace old analog phones, which will have a huge impact on the PHS market.
In addition, PHS uses micro-cellular technology, which requires sufficient base station coverage to ensure communication, but this is not a difficult task for Shenghua.
In recent years, Shenghua Telecom's pager business has been covered in various places. Although this coverage network cannot support the use of PHS, it is still convenient to make adjustments based on it. In addition, with the long-term cooperation advantages between Shenghua Telecom and the postal and telecommunications departments, Song Yuanchao believes that the application of PHS technology in China will be more convenient and more extensive than in the past.
Compared with the original history, PHS technology was introduced into China after 1996. At that time, the postal and telecommunications departments had already had a plan to split up, and the two major departments of the postal and telecommunications departments had actually begun to prepare for separation. By 1998, the two major companies were formally established. Because of the separation and taking into account the interests of their respective operations, the telecommunications department after the separation and the companies established later such as China Unicom and China Mobile did not think highly of PHS technology at all. This is also the main reason why the promotion of PHS technology in China is limited and not optimistic.
But it is only 1992 now, and next year will only be 1993. The separation of the postal and telecommunications departments is still a shadow of the matter, so Shenghua does not need to consider other issues at all. It only needs to open up the channels of the postal and telecommunications departments and cooperate directly with them to implement this project.
Song Chaoyuan was talking with Li Daqi and Qin Zhengguo about the implementation of the next PHS project and discussing some details of the work. Time passed quickly as the three of them chatted. At noon, the phone suddenly rang beside him. Song Chaoyuan reached out and picked up the phone and put it to his ear.
After listening to a few words, Song Chaoyuan showed joy on his face and then hung up the phone.
"How about it?"
"It's done!" Song Chaoyuan made an OK gesture to them with a smile on his face. Li Daqi and Qin Zhengguo felt relieved and they both laughed.
A few days later, Song Chaoyuan returned to Shanghai, Qin Zhengguo stayed in Hong Kong, and Li Daqi went to Pengcheng to prepare for the establishment of a new company under Shenghua Telecom.
After obtaining the technology, the PHS project entered the substantive later stage of work, and the next step was to negotiate with the postal and telecommunications departments. This work was still in the charge of Li Daqi, but before the negotiations, a new company had to be established, which would independently operate the PHS project.
Preparations for the company have begun, but the company name has not yet been registered. Song Yuanchao already has an idea about the company's name. Since it is PHS technology, the Xiaolingtong used in his previous life is the best choice.
Xiaolingtong is a well-known name in China. The name comes from a science fiction novel called "Xiaolingtong Wandering in the Future". There happens to be a description of mobile phones in the novel. In addition, the name catchy, so Song Chaoyuan decided to use this name as the company name and the name of future PHS products without thinking.
But before the formal registration, Song Chaoyuan took into consideration the author of Xiaolingtong, Mr. Ye Yonglie, the father of Xiaolingtong, and planned to visit the famous writer in person and obtain the copyright of the name Xiaolingtong from him.
Speaking of Ye Yonglie, he is very famous. He is not only the father of Xiaolingtong, but also one of the main authors of "100,000 Whys" back then.
The popular science novel "100,000 Whys" is very famous. It is a reading material for many children from the 1960s to the 1980s, and even adults highly praise this book.
In addition to these works, Mr. Ye Yonglie is also an excellent science fiction writer. His Jin Ming science fiction detective series of novels is very famous. He is one of the best science fiction writers in the country, along with Mr. Zheng Wenguang, who is known as the father of Chinese science fiction literature. In addition to science fiction novels, his works also include other biographical literary works, and he has a considerable status in the literary world.
Song Chaoyuan knew Ye Yonglie, but he had never dealt with him. After returning to Shanghai, he asked around and found out that Ye Yonglie lived in Shanghai and had been working in Shanghai since 1976. He had worked as a screenwriter and director at Shanghai Film Studio, and later went to the Writers Association. He had been working and living in Shanghai all these years.
Through the channels of Shanghai Film Studio, Song Chaoyuan obtained the address of Mr. Ye Yonglie's home and found a time to visit him in person.
Mr. Ye Yonglie used to live in Caoxi Village 1. He just moved a few years ago, but his new residence is not far from his previous residence, just near his previous community.
It was easy to find the place. This residential complex was built not long ago and looked very new. Song Yuanchao came downstairs with the gift in his hand, looked up at the house number, and made sure he had not made a wrong decision.
After going upstairs and arriving at Mr. Ye Yonglie's house, Song Chaoyuan raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"What?" A Shanghainese voice echoed from the room, and Song Chaoyuan said, "Is Teacher Ye at home? My last name is Song, and I was introduced by Teacher Cao from the studio."
"Wait a moment..." someone answered from inside the house. After a while, the back door opened and a man in his fifties wearing a cotton coat opened the door. The man was slightly fat, with a square face, slightly curly gray hair, and a pair of glasses. It was Mr. Ye Yonglie.
"Hello, Mr. Ye. My last name is Song Yuanchao. Your home address was given to me by Mr. Cao from the studio."
"Haha, I know, I know. Come in and sit down." Mr. Ye Yonglie is not from Shanghai, but he has lived and worked in Shanghai for many years and can speak Shanghainese quite fluently.
He warmly invited Song Chaoyuan in. Previously, Song Yuanchao had contacted Mr. Ye Yonglie through Mr. Cao from the studio. Mr. Cao and Mr. Ye Yonglie were once colleagues and friends. Before Song Yuanchao came, Mr. Cao had already called Mr. Ye Yonglie in advance.
"Thank you, Teacher Ye." Song Chaoyuan said as he walked in and put the things in his hand aside. Seeing that Song Yuanchao had brought something with him, Mr. Ye Yonglie frowned slightly, but before he could speak, Song Yuanchao said that these things were not valuable, they were all distributed by the unit, and some were the company's own products. Today was the first time he visited, so he couldn't come empty-handed. Chinese people value reciprocity, and Mr. Ye Yonglie was an elder, so he still had to show the necessary courtesy as a junior.
After hearing this explanation, Mr. Ye Yonglie couldn't help but laugh. He carefully looked at the gifts brought by the Song Dynasty aid, and they were indeed not valuable things. Apart from two common nutritional supplements, there were also two cakes of inconspicuous tea.
However, Mr. Ye Yonglie naturally did not know that the most valuable gifts Song Chaoyuan brought were the two cakes of tea. This tea looked ordinary, but it could not be bought with money outside. It was the good tea from the old tea factory when Song Chaoyuan went to Chuncheng before. Every year, except for a small part of this tea that was sold to the outside world, most of it was intercepted by Song Yuanchao. Some was collected, and some was drunk by himself or given to relatives and friends.
Mr. Ye Yonglie’s house is not big, but it is much better than his previous house in Caoxi Village.
When he was in Caoxi Village, the house he lived in was only 40 square meters. The two rooms not only accommodated Ye Yonglie and his wife, but also his two children. In addition, Ye Yonglie also needed to write and work on a regular basis, so the conditions at home were really not good.
Now, the living conditions here are much better than before. The new house is more than 70 square meters and has three bedrooms and a small living room (dining room). The master bedroom is where Ye Yonglie and his wife live, and the second bedroom is reserved for his children. But now his two children are grown up and have started their own families. Except for sometimes coming back to visit him and his wife, they usually have their own place to live.
Another room was converted into a study by Ye Yonglie, where two rows of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves were built by a carpenter. The bookshelves were filled with a variety of books, some of which were Ye Yonglie's own works.
There was a somewhat old desk next to the window, with an old desk lamp on it. On the desk were a half-written manuscript paper and a fountain pen, as well as a few books on the side. It seemed that he was working when Song Yuanchao came.
Although there is a living room in the house, this living room has the same function as the dining room. In addition, the so-called living room is very small and is obviously not suitable for entertaining guests.
Mr. Ye Yonglie invited Song Yuanchao into his study, made him a cup of tea, and said with a smile, "Sit anywhere you want." He also asked Song Yuanchao if he smoked, and took out a cigarette and handed it to Song Yuanchao.
He took it and lit it for Mr. Ye Yonglie. The two of them sat down and started chatting, starting with the introducer, Mr. Cao, and gradually talked about the current situation of the studio and Mr. Ye Yonglie's recent work. For a while, they were so excited that Mr. Ye Yonglie told Song Yuanchao some interesting things about his previous work at the studio, and he couldn't help laughing because he was so happy.
"Teacher Ye, I came to you today mainly because I want to ask you a favor..."
"Oh, by the way, look at my brain, Lao Cao said you have something to ask me? Oh, what is it?"
"You had a work called "Little Smart Wanders in the Future"."
"Yes!" Mr. Ye Yonglie nodded. "This work has been published for several years. I remember that it was conceived in 1983 and published in 1984. Why? Are you interested in this work? I heard from Lao Cao that your company is now cooperating with the production studio and the Yanjing Production Center? Are you planning to adapt this story? Or are you preparing to...?"
"No, no, no, you misunderstood." Song Chaoyuan waved his hands and explained, "We have no idea of adapting this work at the moment. We are looking for you today because of another matter related to this work."
"Another thing?" Ye Yonglie was a little confused. He was just a writer. Writers write, and their works are printed and published, or adapted. Song Chaoyuan was not a publishing house. When Lao Cao introduced him, he said that he was an advertising company and a film and television company. If that was the case, then they should be preparing to adapt his works? You know, this novel is his old work, and it has been published for nearly ten years.
Song Chaoyuan did not beat around the bush and stated his purpose directly. When he told Mr. Ye Yonglie that his company needed the copyright of the term "Xiaolingtong", Ye Yonglie felt even more confused. Although he was a writer, he was a writer of the older generation. He knew about the copyright of books, but he had never heard of the copyright use of characters in the books.
After all, there is no such saying now, and there is no precedent in China. In Mr. Ye Yonglie's opinion, if Song Chaoyuan wanted to use the term "Xiaolingtong", he could just use it directly. Was it necessary to visit him in person and bring gifts to ask for his consent?
