Chapter 186 Communication Revolution
High-speed text first
Mobile synchronous reading
If you talk about who is the most dazzling technology company in the United States now, then Iridium is definitely the No.1 well-deserved. A week ago, Iridium officially announced that the Iridium satellite global communication system has completed all the launch and commissioning tasks, and can officially provide high-quality global satellite communication services to the world. At the same time, Iridium's board of directors also announced the company's financial report for the first half of the year. This report shows that Iridium's active users have reached two million, and it has begun to realize profitability.
Iridium's outstanding performance stunned Wall Street. However, the financial report of AT&T made the entire Wall Street begin to admire the excellent management ability of Eva, the richest woman in the United States. AT&T hinted in its first-half earnings report that the company has completed a fiber-optic backbone linking the east and west coasts of the United States. In the next step, AT&T intends to cooperate with European telecommunications operators to build a transatlantic submarine optical fiber line.
The rapid development of communication technology has completely changed the way of communication for college students in the United States. Now that most colleges and universities in the United States have been connected to the AT&T network, all kinds of novelties have begun to enrich the lives of college students in the United States. Life. Some college students invented a cartoon with pure characters, and put it on the school's public network, and then, a pure text version of the online game appeared - (Multiple User Domain Multi-User Virtual space games). American college students affectionately call it the mud game (mud game).
However, these things are considered pediatrics compared with the Gopher information retrieval system developed by the University of Minnesota. Relying on the Gopher system, websites supporting Gopher technology have sprung up all over the Internet. Speaking of Gopher developed by the University of Minnesota, it was originally an information retrieval system developed by the University of Minnesota itself, with a history earlier than AT&T's network plan. The reason why it is named Gopher is derived from the golden hamster, the mascot of the University of Minnesota sports team - (Gopher) Gopher. When colleges and universities in the United States set off an upsurge in connecting to the network, Gopher was found to be well applied in this network as a basic protocol. So many college students have joined in the support of Gopher.
The emergence of Gopher made people discover that the AT&T network is not only suitable for communication, but also can do many interesting things. For example, you can play MUD games, and you can retrieve some interesting content through Gopher. This brought more and more new customers to AT&T.
The development of network technology seems to have surpassed everyone's imagination. It took Americans a hundred years to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean by railroad, but now it only took AT&T a year to connect the United States with optical fiber. East and West Coasts. Now the whole of Wall Street doesn't know how to use dollars to evaluate Iridium, Yota Communications and AT&T, and these three companies are still in the hands of the same person.
The emergence of the Iridium system allowed Seryozha to finally throw away the clunky and expensive old-fashioned satellite phones of the past.
Seryozha can contact Eva in the United States at any time in Moscow, but the only problem is that the Soviet government has not yet joined the Iridium system, so the effect of Seryozha's indoor calls is far inferior to that of an open outdoor. The Iridium system is completely in Eva's hands. Seryozha did not have to worry about the KGB and CIA monitoring him. This will make it easier for Seryozha to control his business in Western Europe, North America and other regions.
Now Seryozha can discuss business matters on the phone with the core members of the Gorky Brotherhood every week. And give orders to his subordinates. Seryozha has basically handed over the business of the Soviet Union to his confidants trained by the Communist Youth League, and they can take over many business matters in the Soviet Union. If there is an emergency, Hassan and Petrov, who stayed in Moscow, will help Sergei to deal with it. This also means that people like Boris, Yakov, Mikhail, Yuri, etc. do not have to go back to the Soviet Union. They have worked hard with Sergey for so many years, and they can finally enjoy a good life up.
Boris has been kept in the country by Seryozha for the past few years. As Seryozha's right-hand man, Boris has grown up completely now. It's time for Boris to go abroad and take over some business. Seryozha intends to send Boris to London to replace Nastya, who has been in London, to handle the affairs of the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank in London. Will be placed in the hands of Boris.
The reason why Seryozha called Nastya back was to facilitate the control of Komsomolskaya Pravda. And to a certain extent, to check and balance Gusinski, to prevent "Komsomolskaya Pravda" from becoming someone else's wedding dress. After all, Seryozha didn't know Gusinsky well enough, so he didn't feel at ease sending the entire Komsomolskaya Pravda into the hands of outsiders.
In June, the sixth phase of the Workers' New City, which had almost become an unfinished building, was finally completed. At the same time, the automobile manufacturing plant invested by Volkswagen in Gorky City was also successfully put into operation. To make Volkswagen cars sell better in the USSR. Sergey selected from the Youth League Committee some subordinates who were interested in entering the automobile industry to join the Volkswagen Group, and Berezovsky, a mathematics professor at the Soviet Academy of Sciences who had cooperated with Sergey long ago, took away the Volkswagen Group. Nearly one-tenth of the capacity on the production line.
After Nastya returned to China, Seriosha pulled Khodorkovsky back from his position as the interim head of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and took the position for Nastya. Seryozha had a long talk with Dolkovsky, and he hoped that Khodorkovsky would be able to deal with the deficit of the VTB Bank of the Soviet Union as soon as possible. After more than a year of hard work, there is now very little foreign exchange left on the books of the VTB Bank of the Soviet Union. Seriosha needs Khodorkovsky to clean up these bad debts as soon as possible to prevent Ligachev's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation from launching a surprise attack.
Seryozha already has a plan for the next step. He wants to help Ligachev and Shevardnadze write about the Georgian issue, the focus of the feud between Ligachev and Shevardnadze. Now "Komsomolskaya Pravda" can be used as the main battlefield this time. Seryozha wants to put everything done by Ligachev's work team in Georgia under the microscope so that no matter what Ligachev does, it will arouse the attention of the people. dissatisfaction.