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Chapter 507 Why is no one interfering? (First update!)

Once the device connection is successful, the telecom company engineer begins configuring the transmission link, including configuring the transmission link between the base station and the core network, assigning base station IP addresses, and testing transmission latency, bandwidth, and stability.

After about 20 minutes, the test was completed, and the engineer then began configuring the most basic base station parameters.

Configure the cell ID, rating, PCI, and data of surrounding signal base stations.

These tasks are relatively simple and can be completed in just a few minutes. The engineer turned his attention to Lü Liang, a new piece of equipment from a new manufacturer that was not registered within the telecommunications company.

For temporary use, access permissions are required. Only with these permissions can the device access the core network, complete registration, and begin application.

Lu Liang didn't waste any words. He walked up to the engineer, squatted down, took out his phone, stared at the content on the computer screen for a while, took a few photos with his phone, and clicked send.

It didn't send because he cut off the base station signal.

After holding his phone in silence for a moment, Lü Liang raised his hand and slapped himself across the face. He then walked up to Chen Mingyang, who was grinning maliciously, and said, "My phone!"

Chen Mingyang smiled, opened his hand, walked to the engineer's computer, took a few photos, sent them over as requested by Lü Liang, and then made a phone call.

The person in the head office's technical department had been waiting for this call. As soon as he dialed it, the other end answered immediately.

Because the number had been changed, the other party repeatedly confirmed it and directed the taking of several photos before confirming that the call was made by their general manager.

After confirming it wasn't a scam call, the group worked quickly.

Within minutes, the technical department had registered the base station in the core network and the key verification was successful.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the base station's signal indicator light finally turned from red to green, and a notification sound was emitted:
[Device registration successful, core network connection successful!]

As the cold female voice rang out, Lü Liang quickly held the phone she was gripping up to her eyes.

In the upper right corner of his phone screen, there was a full signal.

After staring at the signal for a few seconds, he quickly turned around and asked several engineers from the telecom company, "How long did it take from when they set up the equipment to when the registration and verification were approved?"

As soon as the question was asked, an engineer on the left raised his watch:

"49 minutes and 45 seconds!"

That's an absurd timing.

Lu Liang turned around and looked down at the town below from his high vantage point. The neighboring Fujian province has the goddess Mazu, so typhoons rarely pass through their area.

After each typhoon, all telecommunications companies need to repair equipment and restore communications as quickly as possible.

If the problem cannot be resolved, a temporary base station needs to be activated, but those base stations take a long time to activate. If we use Xiaomi Heavy Industry's equipment, at least the time for restoring communication during emergency rescue will be shortened.

If you handle emergencies well, you will achieve results, and achieving results is a good thing.

After admiring the town below for a while, he turned around and looked at the engineer beside him:
"Set the coverage range to the maximum level, which is 150 kilometers."

The engineer did as he was told, tapped a few keys on the computer, and looked up: "All set up!"

Upon receiving the engineer's reply, Lü Liang gave Lin Yi a thumbs-up, then quickly withdrew it, searched for Lao Yu's number in his phone's contacts, and dialed it.

The phone was answered after only two seconds of ringing, and before he could even speak, Old Yu's tirade came through:

"You guys are amazing!"

"The higher authorities just issued a document to carry out a pilot project for communications in the Yangtze River Delta, and you've already started laying base stations right here in our area!"

"You're something else, aren't you, surnamed Lü!"

"I sent people to the location as you requested, fearing it was something serious, so I came here in person. I had just finished preparing the equipment when I received your text message!"

"Dear customer, welcome to Lin'an Telecom services. Lin'an Telecom adheres to the philosophy of putting users first and providing attentive service to offer you high-quality communication services..."

"You've really gotten to know things!"

When Lü Liang made the call, he put it on speakerphone, so Lao Yu's cursing on the other end of the line reached everyone present in detail. Apart from the people from the three major telecom operators, everyone else looked at him blankly, not understanding why the other party was cursing him.

Lin Yi stood to the side, having overheard everything. Just as he was about to ask, he heard Yang Jun whisper beside him:

"The operator will mark the device that is accessing the area for the first time and send a welcome text message!"

"If Mr. Lin, your equipment can really cover a range of 150 kilometers."

"Then, a large part of the neighboring Anhui province should have received this text message."

"I reckon that Lao Yu, whom General Manager Lü mentioned, is currently being scolded and is in a bad mood!"

"Oh, I see!" Lin Yi nodded as if he suddenly understood, looking at Lü Liang with an expectant gaze.

After being scolded by the person on the other end of the phone, Lü Liang wasn't angry. Instead, he waited until the person on the other end was tired of scolding before quietly asking:
"Has the device received a signal?"

"We received a signal from a telecommunications device, but because it lacks an identification code, we can only passively receive the signal and cannot access it," came Old Yu's panting voice, followed by his somber words:
"What on earth are you doing, kid?"

"I heard that this so-called Yangtze River Delta is a pilot project for communications engineering, which is a good thing that you guys did."

"What kind of trick are you up to now?"

Lu Liang sighed and brought the microphone close to his mouth: "We are testing a device, a base station, which has a maximum coverage radius of 150 kilometers."

"I also have a base station, which is about 130 to 150 kilometers away from your current location in a straight line."

"If you can receive the signal, it means there's nothing wrong with the device. I'll give you the authorization code now. Log in to the device and exchange data with our core network."

After explaining the reason, it took Lao Yu a long time to finally utter two words on the phone:

"Damn! You guys actually dared to stand under this equipment!"

"Give me the authorization code, and don't hang up the phone. It will take about 20 minutes."

On the shore of Nanyi Lake, Lao Yu held his phone, repeating each sentence spoken by the person on the other end.

After repeating the words, the engineer next to him entered the corresponding authorization code into the device, and after a short wait, a verification prompt popped up.

They then used the basic electronic map that came with the device to locate its position.

Looking at the straight line of more than 100 kilometers between the two sides, the group fell into deep thought.

One of the engineers looked up, his face contorted in a grimace, and asked Lao Yu:

"Mr. Yu, this should be some kind of new jamming device that disguises the location of the base station, right?"

"How could there possibly be a signal base station covering more than 150 kilometers?"

"How much power would it need?"

"Could there be any living people next to a base station?"

Old Yu didn't respond; he just held the mouse in his hand, constantly zooming in and out of the map.

Finally, he gently shook his head, denying what his subordinate had said:

"Impossible!" "Although Lu Liang is not a good person, he wouldn't do something like this. They must really be testing the equipment."

"I just don't know the specifics of the situation."

“Export the relevant data and send it to my email address. I will then forward this document to him.”

"And then about this... um... let's pretend we don't know anything about it for now."

After giving his instructions, Old Yu took his phone and walked to the lakeside. Looking at the shimmering surface of the lake, he said earnestly:
"I'll send you the data via email."

"But Lao Lü, as a friend of many years, I hope you will listen to my advice. At our age, we should put down those restless thoughts and stop messing around."

"If you mess around and ruin your reputation, that would be a real problem."

On the mountaintop above the Fenshui River, Lü Liang listened to the earnest voice coming from the phone and felt something was amiss.

It was as if I had become a prisoner and was being interrogated.

He blinked and asked into the phone, "Are you making connections again..."

Before he could finish speaking, the person on the other end of the phone had already hung up.

My phone chimed, notifying me of an email.

Lü Liang quickly opened his email, found the corresponding email, and forwarded it to the engineers on site so they could download it.

With the data in the email, the engineers immediately began to connect it with the core network data. After repeated confirmations, they arrived at a very absurd answer.

This device does indeed cover 150 kilometers.

Having obtained this data, Lü Liang opened his mouth and exhaled several breaths forcefully. As the last breath escaped his chest, he shouted with all his might:
"Conduct access tests to comprehensively track throughput and base station handover performance!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the engineer looked up, his face full of embarrassment:

“Um… Mr. Lü, during the coverage process just now, the core network had already enabled access to Fenshuijiang.”

"In other words, during the range test just now, we were already in a communication state."

The engineer's words left Lü Liang speechless, staring at the heavens in contemplation of how he should deal with these people.

But when he thought about how he had cut off communication to the towns below without activating the backup base station, and then after only half a day, he suddenly realized that the mess these engineers had made wasn't really a mess.

Pressing his hand to his forehead, he calmly said, "Don't make this mistake again."

"Adjust the coverage of communication base stations to 35 kilometers, remove the full access restriction, and track the maximum number of accesses."

"The time limit is half an hour. Report the data after half an hour."

The phrase "Don't make this mistake again" was like a pardon to the engineers. They quickly sent a message to the core network personnel and then adjusted the signal coverage of the base station on-site.

After the adjustments were completed, everyone's eyes were glued to the computer screen.

To make up for their mistake, the engineers not only compiled the straightforward data, but also made phone calls to seek outside help and obtained some additional data.

Half an hour flew by as they worked on the data.

As the countdown rang, the engineer in charge recorded the final statistics and then slowly approached Lü Liang.

As the answer was about to be revealed, Zhao Jianghe and Chen Mingyang quickly gathered around, along with their respective engineers.

This is a good thing that doesn't require them, China Unicom and China Mobile, to contribute manpower and effort, so we must show our support.

Looking at the large group of people, the head of telecommunications engineering swallowed hard and said in as loud a voice as possible:
"Just now, we expanded the signal range to 35 kilometers."

"Within this 35-kilometer radius, there are a total of three towns and three townships."

“These three towns and three townships have a resident population of about 9. Among these 9 people, we have about 11000 users, which is about the same number as China Mobile and China Unicom.”

“A large portion of these people are overlapping users; those who can afford a phone don’t lack one or two.”

"Just now, six minutes after being granted full access, this base station reached its limit in the number of access signals it could process, which is 4700."

"And for the next 24 minutes, all 4700 signal connections remained stable."

"Since the connection was established, there has been no network drop or disconnection."

"This is only the result of a 30-minute test. If possible, I suggest running the device continuously for 72 hours and then seeing the results."

"Apart from that, the radiation from the base station has not increased."

Upon receiving this data, Lü Liang blinked, opened his mouth, but didn't utter a word; he simply kept breathing in and out.

After a while, he composed himself, gave Lin Yi and Yang Jun a thumbs up, and then together with Zhao Jianghe and Chen Mingyang, they took the three documents again and gathered together to re-examine the quotations on them.

Su Bangding, who had watched the whole process, also came over and looked curiously at the price list: "How is it?"

Beside him, Zhao Jianghe, with documents on his hands, said, "Boss, if the results are stable after 72 hours, then they've basically won the bid."

"This data..."

"This is absolutely outrageous!"

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, if this wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision, if I didn't know Lao Lü's character, I would have suspected that this was... a pre-prepared script."

They were discussing, and Lin Yi and Yang Jun were also discussing nearby. Yang Jun looked at Lü Liang and the others, and whispered to Lin Yi:
"Now it seems this business is basically ours, right?"

Lin Yi nodded: "More or less! Our offer might even be higher..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yang Jun quickly covered his mouth with his hand and whispered:
"You can't say that. It's best to inflate the required quantity and price for these projects while ensuring your own profit."

"If there are too many pieces, and the construction is completed, there will be a batch of surplus equipment left over. Since this batch of equipment was not purchased, they did not pay for it."

"They can then promote their good cost control and excellent solutions, and use that for publicity."

"If you order too few, it will be troublesome if there's a shortage."

Lin Yi thought about it carefully and found that Yang Jun's words made a lot of sense, so he nodded in agreement.

After nodding, he looked around and finally let out a helpless sigh.

The sigh aroused Yang Jun's curiosity, and he pressed for an answer:
"What's wrong again?"

"A bit disappointed!" Lin Yi shook his head, even putting his hands behind his back, and walked to the intersection near the base station platform. Yang Jun followed behind, constantly asking questions:
"The projects are basically secured, what are you disappointed about? Those are three projects from three different telecom operators! Nearly 300 billion yuan in 18 months, what more do you want?"

"Disappointment that no one bothers me!"

"I think you're crazy. If someone interferes, no matter what the outcome, they will hold a meeting to discuss it and put the matter aside. That would just be a nuisance."

"I still feel it's a pity!"

(End of this chapter)