Although it seems that the prospects for housekeeping service robots are very good, in fact, he does not have much confidence in what they will actually be like.
Of course, you can think in an optimistic direction before things start, which can increase your self-confidence, but you also need to prepare for the worst, so that if an accident occurs, you will not be thrown into chaos.
Although the role of domestic service robots is very important, in his opinion, renting such robots is definitely worth the money, but people in our country are used to being frugal, and it is still unknown whether they are willing to spend this money.
Our country has a strong family concept. In fact, many people leave their children to their parents to take care of them. Although it is not possible for all of them, especially young parents, they still need to work.
However, the proportion of parents taking care of children should not be low, and the elderly of this era have experienced hardship and are willing to take care of these trivial matters.
As for the situation abroad, it may be better than that in China. After all, young couples abroad are more independent, and the situation of parents helping to raise children is not as strong as in China.
Moreover, foreign families generally have several children, and the value of domestic service robots can be better reflected here. In addition, foreign public education itself is not very good, and the tutor function of domestic service robots may be very popular.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yi felt that he could provide customized services, such as separating tutors as part of the customized services, which could increase the overall cost of use.
In China, due to the large-scale provision of dedicated education tablets to students, they are equivalent to tutors. Therefore, customized tutor services may not be very good in China, so there is no need to separate them.
But in foreign markets, this is completely possible. If you rent a domestic service robot, you will not only have a nanny, but also a tutor with very good professional abilities.
Maybe this tutoring service could make more money than the nanny service of these housekeeping robots, because they can catch up with elite school education for less money.
It's just that he doesn't know whether it's good or bad. Precisely because he's not sure about the quality of this matter, he doesn't let Chinese education companies get involved in the overseas education field.
With the technical strength and educational resource capabilities of Chinese education companies, it would be relatively easy to expand overseas education markets. They originally intended to develop business in this area, but he stopped it.
If we really want to talk about it, it is still his narrow thinking that is causing trouble. Although our country is gradually taking the lead in all aspects, if foreign education as a whole catches up, will it have an impact on the current good situation
Before he was sure about this matter, it was understandable that he could not make such a decision. No matter how sentimental he was, at least he considered himself a nationalist, and the interests of the country and the nation always took priority.
Now that he wants to make money in this area without causing too much impact, he can only raise the price of tutors very high. Although it is not as expensive as an elite school for nobles, it is not something he can do casually. Affordable.
According to his opinion, the service fee of a tutor is basically equivalent to about 80% of an adult's working income. If an ordinary family wants to buy one at this price, they need to make a lot of determination.
This involves some of his thoughts, that is, at such a high cost, if ordinary families are still willing to bear the cost, then their children should receive an excellent education.
Everything must leave a glimmer of hope, and this glimmer of hope is more willing to be given to those who work harder for it. Those families who are willing to bear the cost are destined to live frugally and spend more money on their children's education. above.
As for those who only care about their own enjoyment, whether their children can have a bright future is not something they can consider. They only need to ensure that the children of their own citizens can receive excellent educational resources.
Thinking of this, he has already made up his mind. The domestic operation method is different from the foreign operation method. The domestic service robots provided for domestic rental are complete from the beginning.
The domestic server robots provided to foreign countries are divided into two parts. The first part only provides maid services. The pricing strategy is the same as that in China, which is half of the average salary in the country where it is located.
The exclusive customized service for tutors is charged separately. The price is 80% of the average salary in the country where the tutor is located. The combined funds of the two services exceed the average salary in the country where the tutor is located.
The reason why he set the price like this is that he wants to make money, but he also doesn’t want people in these countries to easily obtain cheap high-end education. If he wants a future, he must pay more.
Of course, it can also provide basic education services to domestic service robots provided by overseas users, and can provide basic guidance to students under school age. As for more educational content, additional money will be required.
Perhaps it would be easier to get overseas consumers to pay for it instead of just recruiting a coolie, but it is impossible to cultivate talents with basic education services.
Moreover, different services can be developed according to regional characteristics. For example, countries like Japan can develop cute housekeeping robots. I believe they should be popular. They can even develop special services to increase business income.
Although this seems a bit dirty, it does not delay him from making money. Anyway, the adverse effects caused by it do not appear in the country, and he himself has no psychological burden at all.
As long as the local law does not prohibit it, as a businessman, you cannot restrain yourself. Everything is for the purpose of making money, and perhaps your overseas business will be greatly developed.
Although he doesn't know whether the robot business can bring him enough profits, he is still confident that the global business can bring him at least 500 billion yuan in net income according to conservative estimates.
But this scale alone is not enough for the plan he wants to implement. He must also find more sources of profit so that he can deal with it more calmly.
Therefore, he plans to integrate the global satellite communication service that he has long wanted to develop, not to compete with current communication service providers, but to provide communication services for people who cannot obtain communication services.
There are not many countries like my country that have achieved nationwide coverage of communication signals. Communication service providers in developed countries are more keen to provide services to urban residents, so the investment is relatively small and the benefits are relatively large.
In rural areas, where there are only a few households, people disdain the construction of signal towers and fiber optic networks specifically for these people, because such work is destined to be a loss-making business.
And his global satellite communication service is aimed at these groups. As for whether urban residents will use his global satellite communication service, that is beyond his control. After all, the price of satellite communication service is definitely higher than that of ordinary communication service. Be high.
If urban residents would rather use high-priced satellite communication services than ordinary communication services, it means that the quality of local ordinary communication services is really not very good, and it is their own fault if they are replaced.
This may also help them improve the quality of their communication services in disguised form, and also allow his communication companies to sell more communication equipment. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Thanks to ultra-high-speed compression communication technology, a relatively large communication carrying capacity can be achieved using a smaller number of communication satellites, which can significantly save costs.
However, how to reduce delay is indeed an issue that cannot be ignored. If you are just making phone calls, browsing videos, or browsing web pages, longer delay does not matter much. As long as the bandwidth is large, it will basically not affect the user experience.
But playing online games is different. If the delay is too high, it will be impossible to play at all. And this group is the main force in surfing the Internet and has a relatively strong demand for online consumption.
Therefore, just launching a few synchronous satellites is not enough. The synchronous satellites are 36,000 kilometers away from the ground, and the delay will reach at least 120 milliseconds. This delay is a bit large when playing games.
This is determined by physical characteristics. The transmission speed of electromagnetic waves is only so fast, and it cannot be reduced by any means. Therefore, in order to reduce this problem, more low-altitude communication satellites need to be launched.
According to his idea, of course, the fewer satellites that need to be launched, the better. This requires a scientific calculation. The number of satellites is related to both the satellite signal coverage and the height of the satellite from the ground.
He feels that the orbit of Yingjiang's GPS is very suitable. 24 satellites can cover the whole world, with a distance of 17,000 kilometers from the ground and a minimum communication delay of 56 milliseconds.
Although in his opinion, the delay is still quite high, the cost is relatively low. As long as you don't play real-time strategy games, this kind of network speed should still be able to play most games.
However, this idea is destined to fail, because Yingjiang has started to develop GPS a long time ago, and the orbit is estimated to have been applied for by them. If he wants to launch satellites in this orbit, they probably will not do it in the first place.
Another ready-made project is the Iridium satellite project that Motorola is working hard to develop and may be launched in the future. It has a total of 66 satellites, ranging from 600 kilometers to 800 kilometers from the ground.
To be honest, the Iridium project is indeed good, and now that they have occupied their orbit, their plans will change in the future, which will increase their research and development expenses.
However, what makes him dissatisfied is that there are still too many satellites in use. According to the technology he has now, each satellite can carry 10 million users and provide communication bandwidth of no less than 10M.
If you want 60 of the satellites to play their due role, the number of global users must reach 600 million, which is basically impossible because access to optical fiber is based on households.
So he decided to set the orbital altitude to 1,000 kilometers, so that the shortest time to reach the ground is 3 milliseconds, and the actual service provided to users on the line takes less than 30 milliseconds.
Although the number of satellites may have increased, the hardware of the satellites should not be too high-end. This can reduce the unit price of the satellites. According to his idea, the best satellite price is around 10 million yuan.
If 2,000 of them occur, the total cost will be about 20 billion yuan. As long as there are tens of millions of users around the world, the cost can be recovered in the first year and there will be good profits.
If it is a pure broadband access service, it will cost US$80 per month, which is much higher than the current monthly fee of US$40 to US$60, but there are no geographical restrictions, wireless Internet access can also be used, and the delay is even lower than today's optical fiber.
In the previous life, the development of the Internet was quite slow. At first, bandwidth was calculated in KB. However, in this life, Hengtong Communications Company suddenly brought broadband into the era of MB.
This is also the reason why the Internet is developing so fast in this era. Not only is the cost lower, but the bandwidth is larger, so more people naturally use it.
However, the current home bandwidth is generally less than 10MB. For example, Yingjiang's average home bandwidth is only about 4MB, which is much slower than my country's broadband speed.
Since our country has mastered all optical fiber communication network technologies, and at the same time it has unified planning and construction, and it was also used for educational needs at the beginning, the standards set at the beginning were very high.
Now our country's fiber-to-home bandwidth has reached an average of 20MB, which is enough for all residents' daily needs, and the price is much cheaper than that of Yingjiang.
In the past, we were basically operating at a loss, and prices were lower than now. Now that residents’ incomes have increased, broadband costs have naturally increased. We cannot always let operators operate at a loss.
Even so, the average domestic home subscription price is only 20 yuan per month, which is basically the same price as in the previous life in terms of tariffs, but the bandwidth is still slightly inferior at this time.
And his global satellite communication network is not targeted at domestic countries. Domestic users basically do not need to use satellite communication networks. Not only is it expensive, but it is not necessarily better than terrestrial optical fiber.
The main reason why he sets such a high price is that he does not want to compete with current communication operators for business. This will not only cause great resistance, but will also delay his communication companies from making money.
As for broadband tariffs and voice tariffs in mobile communications, he only launches monthly subscription services, which cost US$100 per month and provide 10GB of mobile traffic and 30 hours of talk time every month.
This is the lowest package service. If you want better services, you need to purchase a higher standard package. In fact, just purchasing the lowest standard mobile package is enough to meet your daily needs.
If the broadband service and mobile service are purchased together, you can also get a discount, and the price is US$150 per month, which is much cheaper than the combined US$180 for the two items.
Such a price is neither too high nor too low. It is higher than the fees in some countries and lower than the fees in some countries. It is expected to bring him more than 100 billion US dollars in revenue every year.
In fact, there are many package services, and I won’t list them all here. For example, the family package allows people in the family to share the package, and the price only needs to increase a little.
This is a very good solution for multi-family users in remote areas, which can reduce the average tariff and make users more willing to use it.
After such a global satellite communication network system came out, Motorola's "Iridium Satellite Project" was directly aborted because the cost of use was far lower than theirs and it also had more functions than them.
With Motorola's technology, the communication satellite system developed is only for phone calls and does not have high-bandwidth capabilities. Now, phone calls are becoming increasingly secondary, while mobile digital traffic is becoming more and more important.
This is why he does not plan to calculate voice calls based on call time and directly package them into a package. This package is basically more than enough to meet daily needs.
Of course, if the package standard is exceeded, the cost will increase significantly. If you want to save on tariffs, you must purchase a refueling package. These are supplementary services.
More importantly, the communication signals of his global satellite communication network also perform well indoors. This technology is still an exclusive technology of his companies.
For example, ATV's global satellite TV program broadcast uses this technology, allowing users to get rid of the trouble of having to install a "pot lid" in their previous lives. They can directly buy a TV and watch satellite TV programs at home.
This technology has also been used in the global communication network of Shangtong Trading Company, allowing them to achieve signal stability in the logistics system they operate around the world, so that the signal will not be interrupted due to narrow space.
The reason why such technology was developed in the first place was because it was believed that the Beidou satellite positioning and navigation system could be used, allowing devices with global access to positioning and navigation to obtain more stable signals.
However, establishing such a global satellite communication network does not require technology and capital. It also requires the cooperation of operators in various countries.
Although he can also only establish a terrestrial communication network docking interface in the country, if he does so, the overall delay will be very large and the quality of the service provided will be very poor.
Therefore, the best approach is to build a number of terrestrial network docking points around the world, so that satellite signals can choose the nearest terrestrial access point and send the signal into the terrestrial communication network.
After all, when using a satellite communication system, you don’t just play with people inside the system. Most people still want to play with users outside the satellite communication system.
There are two issues involved here. The first is the approval status of the country where it is located, and the second is the cooperation of the ground operators in the country where it is located. Otherwise, there will still be no progress.
This is why the price must be set higher than that of terrestrial communication service operators. The tariff standard calculated above is just an idea. For specific implementation, different tariff standards need to be provided according to different countries.
According to his idea, the satellite communication services provided only need to be about 50% higher than the service rates of local terrestrial communication operators.
Such charging standards can distinguish residents in remote areas from urban residents, because residents living in cities have better communication service networks and are not willing to pay more to purchase satellite communication network services. .
For remote areas, no signal or poor signal will be the norm, and even the service price is higher than that of urban residents. These people are his service targets.
It is 50% higher than the price of terrestrial service communication network. Local residents can still afford it, and local service providers do not have to invest huge funds to serve a few people. It is simply not worth it.
The governments of these countries can also provide all citizens with the same services through their satellite communication networks, which has a great effect on improving the happiness index of the people.
If there are not many users in developed countries, we can only vigorously develop customers in Asian, African and Latin American countries. Although the overall unit price is lower, the number of people is large, and the total revenue may not be much lower.
This is also the reason why his previous annual revenue estimate for this business was relatively low. Even though the annual revenue of US$100 billion is very high, in fact, according to the quality of services provided by the satellite communication network, it definitely should not be such a small amount of revenue.
Of course, if the terrestrial mobile communication providers in various countries do not cooperate, then don't blame them for being rude and directly lowering the tariffs to the same level as them, or even lower, and directly taking away their business.
By then, as long as there are enough users in his satellite communication network, he can set up an independent communication network by himself, and then there will really be no need for terrestrial communication operators.
You must know that the global communications equipment provider is also a company owned by him. As long as the equipment price does not decrease, it is destined that the tariffs for end consumers will not be too low.
And whether it is from the perspective of technological advancement or the convenience of satellite communication networks, they are far ahead of terrestrial communication service operators. It can be said that they are directly sentenced to death.
As a rational businessman, there should be no one who has trouble with his own interests. Although it may have some impact on their existing business, it is still acceptable compared to losing everything. (End of chapter)