After Natsume Network obtained the opportunity to invest in ASN, the two parties were practically a family. Therefore, ASN readily agreed to send a technical team to help Natsume set up a network in Tokyo. At the same time, ASN's subordinate network would be fully open to connect with Natsume's network.
However, these costs would be paid by Natsume.
The above conditions were not the most important conditions. The most important conditions were actually under the suggestion of Natsume Corporation's chairman, Miss Haruko Natsume, the two parties jointly established the "World Internet Development Federation."
According to Miss Haruko Natsume's suggestion, the purpose of establishing this federation was to standardize various technical standards in the development of the Internet around the world.
For example, a series of network standards such as network interface, network data flow editing, port settings, exchange protocols, etc., would be set by this development federation and then used as the federation's standards to promote the Internet to the outside world.
Any country or company that attempted to access the Internet, their equipment, etc., had to comply with this standard. Otherwise, they would not be able to obtain the right to connect to the Internet.
Of course, as a purely commercial association, it only accepted companies. It also welcomed companies from all over the world to join the association. At the same time, all the standards in the association were free to use and no patent fees were charged. This attracted companies from all over the world to join the association.
However, joining the federation only gave them the right to use the standards for free. They did not have the right to discuss and set future standards. Only those who were qualified as founders of the federation had the right to create standards.
Currently, only two companies, Natsume and ASN, had the right to be founders.
Of course, in the future, with the expansion of the federation, most countries and companies in the world would join, and some founders would be released to the public.
However, it was obvious that only companies from the world's rogue countries, such as the P5, could obtain the qualifications of founders with their strong market. Other small countries could forget about it. Unless they didn't want to connect to the Internet, they could just watch from the sidelines.
After ASN heard Natsume's suggestion, they immediately felt that it was very good. Because the previous Internet standards were set by an academic federation, it was obviously not in the interest of commercial companies.
However, if the standards were completely set by this federation, then the power to set the standards would be firmly in the hands of commercial companies. This was naturally excellent.
At the same time, because the development of the Internet in the world relied on commercial companies to operate, the academic federation's power to set the standards would quickly disappear.
That was the truth. In 1995, the Internet Academic Federation announced its dissolution, and the power to set the entire Internet standards fell into the hands of the World Internet Development Federation. At the same time, one of the founders fell into the hands of Natsume Corporation.
In his previous life, whether it was mobile or telecommunications, this was a qualification that they could not even dream of obtaining!
Because this meant that Boss Jia had the right to set and create the world's internet standards. In the future, this could be said to be one of the supreme rights.
However, after handing over 100 million USD to ASN, Boss Jia found himself in a very bad situation. Daqian was out of money again.
Since October, the Daqian company had been spending a lot of money. First, it was the production of VCD players. This was a huge money-consuming monster. Every month, it would consume a few hundred million USD. The VCD players were like a water pump. The Daqian company had used up all their cash flow.
Other than that, the Daqian company's super army project was also a money-consuming hole. When it was launched, it directly sucked in almost 500 million USD of Daqian funds.
There was also the recently established Natsume. This company that Boss Jia built quickly in order to take advantage of the Internet. It also consumed a few hundred million USD of funds.
Therefore, after paying 100 million USD, Boss Jia helplessly found out that the Daqian company's cash flow was empty again. Even the 10 billion RMB that they borrowed from G&S Bank had been completely spent.
The outsiders' guesses about the Daqian company were not wrong. The Daqian company was really out of money. Its cash flow was about to collapse.
To be honest, the Daqian company was almost out of money to hold its annual meeting in a month.
"I have to find a way to get money!" Boss Jia sat in front of his desk and rubbed his head. He thought of many ways, but the amount of money needed this time was too much. Ordinary methods could not get such a huge amount of money.
The only way to solve the problem quickly was to get a loan. However, the problem was that Boss Jia had mortgaged his company. What else could he use to get a loan from other banks?
The Daqian company seemed to be at the end of its rope.
However, at this time, Natsume Haruko found Boss Jia again. Natsume Company was in big trouble.
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"NTT did not agree to let us rent their phone line to launch the Internet service. They said that this needs to be approved by the Daizō Province. However, I applied to the Daizō Province, but the Daizō Province never gave me a reply!" Natsume Haruko said to Boss Jia tiredly.
Although Natsume Company had seized the opportunity of network development and even became the second company in the world to commercialize network operations, the biggest cost of network operations was not technology or equipment, but the laying of the network cable.
Although Natsume Company currently only planned to connect the Tokyo area with the network, even if it was only the Tokyo area, if Natsume laid the network cable by itself, the cost would be as high as hundreds of billions of yen. This was a huge amount of money that Natsume could not afford at the moment.
Not to mention that it was not cost-effective to lay the network cable by itself. Not to mention the cost, the most important thing was that the network cable technology was not mature yet. If they set up a special network communication line now, then with the appearance of fiber optic lines in the future, all the network cables that had been laid would have to be replaced.
Instead of this, it was better to wait until the appearance of fiber optic lines, then throw away the phone line and lay the fiber optic lines themselves.
Therefore, in the current situation, if they could rent an existing telephone line network and directly connect to the network signal through the telephone line, that would be the most cost-effective method, because this would save a lot of money on the cost of laying a network line.
All the phone lines in Tokyo were in the hands of NTT, which was the Fusang Telecommunications Telephone Commune. It was a state-owned enterprise. In the field of telephones, it had the unquestionable hegemony. Except for a small number of areas in Fusang that were laid by private telephone companies, the remaining 92% of the area's phone lines were in the hands of NTT.
Natsume could only obtain the right to use NTT's phone lines if it reached a cooperation with NTT. However, Natsume had found NTT several times in a row, hoping to reach a cooperation, but NTT directly pushed it to the Daizō Province, which was in charge of them.
The Dazang Province didn't even give Xiamu any reply. This made Xiamu on the verge of a mental breakdown. If they couldn't even get through the phone line, then Xiamu Network could only close down and close down.
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