383: Chapter 383 Chamber of Commerce Releases Mobile Phone

"Olos Country?"

With the ground internet long since paralyzed, he still knew very little about the vast changes happening in the world.

The current Firefly Project did not involve foreign countries. In other words, he had no need to extend his reach to those places.

However, no plan didn't mean that the crystals there couldn't be earned.

Oriental Chen believed that not only could it be earned, but it absolutely had to be earned.

As for whether it would be useful, that was not an issue at all.

The Supercomputing Center could communicate in real-time with any Micro Queen Bees without any delay.

The reason this could be achieved was thanks to every Bee Queen integrating a communication module: quantum crystal oscillator. Although it was very small, its data transmission rate could easily surpass traditional electromagnetic communication.

Yan Zhengping felt relieved after receiving Oriental Chen's affirmative reply.

The quantity purchased by Olos Country this time was not very large, only 6 Ultrasonic Emitters and 10,000 Combat Suits.

Baili Ji's acquisition price was 20,000 crystalss per Ultrasonic Emitter and 600 crystalss per Combat Suit. Originally, the price was only half of this, but after the council initiated an anti-monopoly investigation into the Huatong Chamber of Commerce, a chain reaction occurred, causing prices to double long ago.

This price was irrelevant to him because the price quoted to Valetov was even higher: 2,000,000 crystalss per Ultrasonic Emitter and 3,000 crystalss per Combat Suit.

He forcefully raised the original total price of 6,120,000 crystalss to 42,000,000, nearly seven times higher.

With gasoline in short supply now, converting proportionally, one ton of gasoline could be worth about 5,000 crystalss. Then 42,000,000 crystalss would be 8,400 tons of gasoline. With one transaction, Baili Ji effectively profited 7,000 tons.

To interject, he could earn so much without lifting a finger. How could doing this business not be comfortable?

October 19, 2055.

The second batch of 30 cooperative Settlement's Chamber of Commerce branches and Guild branches opened simultaneously.

The influence of the Huatong Chamber of Commerce was now incomparable to before, so the market response was even more enthusiastic than last time.

To leverage this wave of popularity and elevate his influence to another level, Oriental Chen decided to launch a new product: mobile phones.

Mobile phones had actually been developed long ago, and their usage was not significantly different from traditional mobile phones. The main differences were two points:

1. Network standard. The mobile phones launched by the Chamber of Commerce were provided with communication services by the Mercenary Guild's signal towers. The current 50 cooperative Settlements had basically covered most of northern China, and the matrix network formed by these signal towers was completely sufficient to provide this service to everyone.

2. Operating system. The built-in operating system imitated traditional mobile phones as much as possible, but the architecture was completely different. This also meant there were not many native applications, and usage scenarios were relatively limited.

But even so, it couldn't stop people's crazy pursuit of it.

Consider the current situation; being able to make calls and send and receive messages anytime, anywhere, was incredibly convenient.

At that time, Niu Xingwang couldn't survive in Qinghe Settlement, and he exchanged a few treasured car batteries for one minute of talk time from someone else, which shows how expensive it was for ordinary people to make a phone call.

Oriental Chen launched this product simultaneously in all cooperative Settlements, directly pushing the Chamber of Commerce's popularity to its peak.

Immediately after, he launched the following services in the name of the Chamber of Commerce:

1. Workstation rental. This was mainly for developers. Because conditions in the Settlements were relatively poor, it was very difficult for people to start companies. And office equipment was needed, which ordinary people simply couldn't afford. In view of this, the Chamber of Commerce launched personalized workstation rental services. It could be by day or by month, and by default, it came with a computer and shared office equipment such as printers, which was very convenient.

2. Co-creation community. This was an online service platform that provided a complete set of quick development tools for computer and mobile applications, as well as accompanying development documentation, to help developers get started quickly and complete application development in the shortest possible time.

3. Cloud services. Provided data storage, data processing, application deployment, and other related services to all developers.

People had generally recognized and accepted these things, so going down the same path again required no effort at all, not even promotion; those who understood would naturally understand, and those who could do it would naturally know how to do it.

Oriental Chen just had to set up the framework, and the rest was up to them to develop.

So why did he do these things? That was because there was enormous strategic significance in them:

Firstly: Restoring network communication could reopen channels for information dissemination, allowing him to grasp various intelligence promptly and comprehensively.

Secondly: It placed a 'tightening-spell' on all potential ambitious individuals. The rapid spread of the network meant that Settlements were no longer closed and isolated; they could no longer engage in barbaric management as they did before. The pressure of public opinion would force them to pay more attention to human rights and scientific management, thereby invisibly curbing the expansion of their ambitions.

Thirdly: Accelerate the circulation of points and materials, further enhancing the Chamber of Commerce and Guild's ability to attract funds.