On November 21, 1987, a young man was anxiously waiting at the post and telecommunications office in Guangzhou. He paced up and down the halls of the post office, listening to the shouts of the people at the counter.
When the salesman called his number, the young man rushed to the counter and asked the counter staff with an anxious face"I heard that you have a batch of mobile phones here, are they now on sale? ”
The salesman told the young man that there was a batch of mobile phones in the warehouse, but he needed to ask the leader whether to sell the mobile phones to the outside world.
After getting permission from the leadership,This salesman sold China's "first" mobile phone to this young man, Xu Feng.
As the first person to eat crabs, Xu Feng can choose the one he is most satisfied with among all the mobile phone numbers. What numbers did he choose?
What did this phone and number bring him?
In the 80s of the last century, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew from the coastal areas.
Xu Feng was keenly aware of the business opportunities brought by this policy, and he decisively raised an initial amount of capital and came to Guangzhou to develop his business here.
After some investigation, Xu Feng found that the people here, with the support of national policies, are living more and more stylishly, and the living standards of the local people are gradually improving.
There are more and more bosses who come to Guangzhou and go to the sea to do business, and their quality of life and consumer demand are also gradually**, Xu Feng thought of a good idea to make money.
Guangzhou, a city that has caught up with the wave of reform, has made the city's economy grow rapidly, more and more people go to the sea to do business, and the vacancies of high-end restaurants are also increasing.
Xu Feng is going to open a seafood restaurant here, benchmarking the local high-end restaurant hotel, and the main customers of this restaurant are the boss who makes a lot of money doing business in the sea, and the wealthy people around him.
Because of its accurate positioning and luxurious decoration, Xu Feng's restaurant "Nanhai Fishing Village" was warmly sought after by the local people and big bosses as soon as it opened.
This made Xu Feng make a lot of money, and he was ready to open another branch.
But before the action was taken, something happened in the store.
Because it is a seafood restaurant, the most important thing in the restaurant is the freshness of the food, and the customers pay attention to the freshness.
However, the source of seafood is more than 300 kilometers away from their own stores, and some are even farther away in Hainan, where they cannot be delivered in time.
The most important thing about seafood is freshness, so time is money for seafood, fishermen are talking about the current price, the time is different, the freshness of seafood is not the same, and it will change.
Therefore, when the fishing boat that went out to sea to salvage went ashore, the merchant would send someone to it, and the nearest telegraph station informed him that Xu Feng would immediately make a decision on this batch of seafood, whether or not.
At that time, telegrams were charged by the number of words, and the nearest telegraph station to the source of the goods also required several hours away, which made it impossible for Xu Feng to immediately negotiate and communicate with the seller the moment the fishing boat went ashore.
In order to reduce his losses and keep the customers in the store, Xu Feng made a decision - to buy a mobile phone.
At that time, mobile phones were a rare commodity, and they had not yet emerged in the mainland of the mainland, and people did not even know about mobile signals. The first time Xu Feng saw a mobile phone was in Sammo Hung's "Train to the Rich Fargo".
Later, when I went to Hong Kong to talk about goods, when I saw the big boss here, I would pin the big brother to my waist. At this time, Xu Feng also wanted to have a big brother.
However, at that time, the mainland had not yet established a signal base, and Xu Feng could not have a mobile phone, but soon his wish came true.
In 1987, Xu Feng learned good news from his relatives who worked in the post and telecommunications bureau.
After the end of the 6th National Games in Guangzhou, 100 trial mobile phones will be put on the market. Xu Feng was ecstatic when he heard the news, he knew that his career would soon usher in a turning point.
In November 1987, Guangzhou successfully hosted the Sixth National Games, and the governor of Guangdong Province received the first mobile service from the mainland in the venue of the Sixth National Games.
Later, it was learned that Guangdong had purchased 100 mobile phones, which would be released to the public after the Sixth National Games**.
23-year-old Xu Feng also set off to the post and telecommunications bureau as soon as he learned the news, for fear that if he came one step too late, the mobile phone would be snatched up.
Fortunately, the people at that time didn't know much about this new thing, and there were not many people who came to buy it, which also made Xu Feng breathe a sigh of relief.
When it was his turn to handle the business, Xu Feng learned from the salesman that he was the first person to come and buy Big Brother.
And because Xu Feng was the first person to buy a mobile phone, the post and telecommunications bureau did not think about the price of the mobile phone, so they asked Xu Feng to sign a check for 20,000 yuan, take the mobile phone away first, and wait for the price to come out, and refund more and make up for less.
Xu Feng's application form.
Then the business staff brought a list, which was the "Guangzhou Mobile ** Installation Application Form", and he asked Xu Feng to fill in the information on the list first.
Xu Feng looked at the list and was about to start writing, when the business staff handed over another piece of paper, on which were strings of numbers. Because Xu Feng was the first person to buy a mobile phone, there were a hundred mobile phone numbers on this piece of paper.
In later recollections, Xu Feng preached:
"I remember very well that the 100 numbers at that time were not even printed out of paper, they were all hand-copied by the post office staff one by one. ”At that time, the mobile phone number was in the form of a number after the area code, and the number in Guangdong was "9010".
Staring at the number paper in front of him, Xu Feng finally locked on.""This number,In his opinion, this number is both smooth and colorful, after all, "8 is hair".
In a later interview, Xu Feng sighed that his current achievements are inseparable from this mobile phone and number, why did Xu Feng say this?
Happily, Xu Feng filled in his personal information on the application form after choosing the number.
Although the purchase fee, installation fee and monthly rental fee of this mobile phone add up to tens of thousands of yuan, Xu Feng believes that this price is not expensive, because it can bring huge profits to his business, which is a very worthwhile thing.
After getting the mobile phone, Xu Feng was under the guidance of the staffdialed the first mobile ** in his life, and he called this ** to the landline in the hotel.
Listening to the voice from the other end of the mobile phone, Xu Feng hung up with satisfaction, and after asking a few questions about the precautions of the mobile phone, Xu Feng left with the mobile phone with satisfaction and started his own money-making journey.
Relying on this mobile phone, Xu Feng can be the first to know the news of the source of goods, and arrange for people to pick up the goods as soon as possible, which improves his office efficiency and retains the customers in the store.
This mobile phone reduces Xu Feng's unnecessary losses, and he can get the best cheap and fresh seafood at the fastest speed, relying on the channels brought by the mobile phone, Xu Feng will make his restaurant bigger and stronger.
Xu Feng turned the "Nanhai Fishing Village" into Zhongnan Group*** Xu Feng also became the chairman of the company, but he still kept this mobile phone and this number.
In the era when Big Brother was just emerging, people didn't know about this new thing like the size of a brick, and there were some ridiculous scenes.
After picking up the accidentally lost Big Brother, some people will directly hand it over to the police station and tell the police that this thing has an antenna on it, which may be a bad thing.
The police officers who were checking were also very nervous, because they also did not know much about this new thing, but fortunately, when they checked this "brick", they found that the words "Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Bureau" were printed on it.
They called the post office to claim it, and the boss of the lost big brother would receive a notice from the post office asking him to "redeem" the lost mobile phone with 500 yuan.
The owner will bring the money to the post office and give the money to the person who picked up the phone to express his gratitude.
At that time, Big Brother was a status symbol, and whoever held Big Brother in his hand would receive envious glances from the surrounding crowd.
They will speak to the person on the other end of the ** in the envious eyes of everyone, showing their worth while showing off.
After all, the cost of a big brother is very expensive, and the market price of a big brother in the early stage of the ** is only 20,000 yuan.
But under the coaxing of people, the value of a big brother can be doubled or tripled, and even if it rises like this, it can't be bought.
However, because it is expensive, only the big boss can use Big Brother, which leads to fewer people using Big BrotherHowever, even if so few people use it, Big Brother will have some problems.
When Big Brother entered the Chinese market, due to the limitations of communication technology at that time, our communication technicians had little experience with Big Brother.
We are all thinking about Big Brother's communication by ourselves and moving forward in the dark. Therefore, the situation of poor signal of Big Brother, busy line, and string line occurs from time to time.
At that time, people walked on the street, and they could often see some people in suits and big backs, holding Big Brother in their hands, running around, they were all looking for Big Brother communication signals.
According to the recollection of Feng Baitang, director of the wireless branch of the Guangzhou Telecommunications Bureau at that time, they were all exposed to this new thing for the first time, and they had to do everything by themselves.
And Big Brother is also always in trouble, so as long as users call ** and say that their mobile phones are faulty, they have to repair them immediately.
At that time, their office environment was also very simple, so they built a room on the roof of the telegraph building, as long as it could not be exposed to the sun or blow, and such an environment did not make the technicians flinch.
In such a difficult environment, they relied on continuous efforts to explore, and successfully established a simulation network, an exchange office, and three aircraft stations in Guangzhou.
The establishment of these communication base stations was guaranteed, and the first batch of users to purchase Big Brother users had smooth communication. It has also laid a good foundation for the development of China's communications.
But with the development of the times, Big Brother, which was all the rage, was gradually eliminated by people, and new things appeared to replace it.
In the nineties of the last century, digital mobile** began to enter people's field of vision, and lighter mobile phones began to appear.
People are beginning to abandon the heavy and expensive Big Brother and turn to the arms of smart, lightweight, and cheap mobile phones. Guangzhou's simulated mobile** network has also begun to shut down.
On the last day of December 2001, Xu Feng, who had already done a thriving business, received ** from the business staff of Guangzhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau.
The business staff informed Xu Feng that the analog mobile network in Guangzhou had been shut down, and Big Brother was no longer available.
Xu Feng treasured the big brother who followed him for fourteen years and replaced it with a smart and convenient PHS, and the lucky number was also replaced by Xu Feng with another string of numbers due to the discontinuation of the eldest brother.
But for Xu Feng, this mobile phone and this string of numbers have a different meaning for him after all. This is the mobile phone and lucky number that led him to riches, and he has been with him for fourteen years.
And Xu Feng also personally experienced, an era of rapid development of communication technology, he watched the communication base station from 2G to 5G, and watched the style of the mobile phone change from big brother to flip phone.
In 2007, with the release of Apple, touch-screen mobile phones crashed into people's field of vision, and the era of national mobile phones is coming. Mobile phones are no longer expensive and new things in people's eyes.
With the continuous change of mobile phones, the functions of mobile phones are also constantly improving, in 2003 mobile phone QQ came out, 2008** officially launched on the mobile phone, the second year of the first map navigation, appeared in the application of mobile phones.
Two years later, when people log on to their phones, they will be able to see WeChat. By 2012, China's mobile phone users exceeded computer users.
In 2019, Xu Feng was invited to become the first batch of 5G users in Guangdong
"Thanks to the significant contributions made by China Mobile to the society in the past few decades, it is precisely because of the continuous efforts of generations of communication people to create a mobile communication platform with sweat and hardship, so that more enterprises can launch more and more colorful applications through this platform. ”In the past few decades, Xu Feng has witnessed the rapid development of China's communications industry, and people's lives have undergone earth-shaking changes under the influence of mobile phones.
In the past, he needed to carry his mobile phone and look for a place with a good signal to dial**, but now Xu Feng can use the country's advanced communication technology anytime, anywhere, to quickly and accurately inform the other party of the information he wants to transmit.
Now, with the advent of the 5G era, no one knows what kind of development communications will usher in in the future, just as people could not have imagined a few decades ago that mobile phones are no longer a luxury, but have become a necessity of life.
Xu Feng's experience is also a microcosm of the times, as he was the first person to buy a mobile phone, from which he obtained faster and more accurate business information, thus achieving great success.
And the people who bought the mobile phone with him were also the pioneers of that era, and they were all moving forward with the tide of the times. And we are also following the tide of the modern times, and I believe that our future will be more colorful.
Because Big Brother is only the starting point of China's communications, not the end.