The next few hours went much more smoothly. With the expansion of servers and the power grid, the entire service was completely stabilized.
Although quite a few people had left initially, the numbers gradually recovered, and the concurrent online users continued to rise.
By seven in the evening, more people had free time. The peak concurrent online users that night reached over 2.48 million at its highest, narrowly missing 2.5 million.
However, Huang He's jinxing had its effect.
At 7:18 PM that night, following the peak of 2.48 million, the network equipment of Wenzhou Telecom was overwhelmed by the massive traffic. The entire Wenzhou region's network needed to be rebooted. This time, the network outage couldn't be resolved within 20 minutes. It took about 12 hours for Wenzhou Telecom to complete the repair work, much to Huang He's dismay.
Theoretically, rebooting the equipment should have taken only ten to twenty minutes. However, it was 7 PM, and the staff had already finished their shifts. They had to wait until the next day to work on it.
So, the wait continued until around 9 AM the next morning, when the network was finally restored. This kind of incident, which would be absolutely impossible in 2021, was quite normal in 2001.
It was unfortunate for oo, which had just reached its peak, to be forced into a half-day hiatus.
And this situation had absolutely nothing to do with the unfortunate Huang He, as, whether or not he had been less intelligent, he couldn't influence anything at Wenzhou Telecom.
However, this was good news for Leng Zhimeng and Chen Shoufu's team. For that day, apart from a few maintenance personnel, the team, who had been working overtime for over a week with less than 4 hours of sleep daily, finally got half a day to sleep!
This also reaffirmed Huang He's resolve to build a dedicated workspace for network companies within a year. Relying on the leather factory's premises was simply not keeping up with the demand.
The location, as Leng Zhimeng had suggested, had to be in a cool mountainous area for better heat dissipation. But it also required a highly developed network with internet speeds capable of handling their needs. Such conditions were very difficult to find. Currently, no place in China met these criteria, so they still had to look for suitable locations around the city.
However, these were future concerns. The immediate priority was to find Wenzhou Telecom and ensure they found a way to increase network bandwidth. Otherwise, Huang He, whose own operations were fine, would be held back by the telecommunications company, which would be a real headache.
But the people Huang He sent to Wenzhou Telecom returned with an unfavorable report. After identifying themselves, before they could even explain the problem, the person in charge at Wenzhou Telecom directly cursed at Huang He's representatives, calling them too overbearing. He claimed that one company was occupying 80% of Wenzhou's network traffic, causing their network to crash. Not only were they working overtime to fix it overnight, but they were also severely reprimanded by their superiors.
You were working overtime to fix it overnight?
Huang He responded with a question mark.
Finally, the responsible person stated that Jiangnan Computer could not be so overbearing in the future. The traffic they occupied could not exceed the upper limit they had set, otherwise, Wenzhou Telecom would directly throttle their bandwidth.
Wenzhou Telecom's response left Huang He dumbfounded. Was this the attitude of a telecommunications company towards a network company? Were there still such overbearing telecommunications companies that proactively throttled network companies in this world??
Furthermore, Huang He was paying Wenzhou Telecom a hefty 600,000 yuan in network service fees every month. Was he paying 600,000 yuan only to have a master ride on his neck? xxs壹贰
Actually, this was where Huang He was mistaken. He couldn't impose the attitude of network operators towards network companies in 2021 onto the heads of China Telecom in 2001.
After all, China's telecommunications industry had not yet reformed. China Telecom was still the sole network operator in the country. If you didn't use their services, there was no second option. Coupled with their status, which differed from private enterprises, a private company shouldn't be too demanding in front of them.
Let alone paying 600,000 yuan a month, even if you paid 6 million yuan, they wouldn't care, as they didn't rely on you for their livelihood.
Therefore, Wenzhou Telecom's attitude was entirely understandable.
This situation made Huang He extremely angry and speechless. Even more speechless was the fact that Huang He didn't dare to lose his temper in front of Wenzhou Telecom. If Wenzhou Telecom cut off his network, the hundreds of millions of investment would be wasted.
With all telecommunication companies being part of the same entity nationwide, Huang He truly couldn't assert his dominance.
So, Huang He immediately had Long Xue step in. She managed to arrange meetings with Wenzhou Telecom and higher-level officials. Through some undisclosed means, they managed to persuade the other party to abandon the detrimental bandwidth throttling. They also promised to invest in improving the network quality.
Although the issue was resolved, Huang He felt extremely disgusted, as if he had eaten something unpleasant. The idea of moving away from Wenzhou first surfaced in his mind.
Of course, these were all future matters. At the very least, Huang He wouldn't be leaving Wenzhou within the next year. Moreover, Huang He didn't have the energy to be angry with these people. He was currently focused on oo's backend data.
Although there had been three unfortunate network incidents, making it impossible to return to the previous peak of 2.48 million concurrent users in a short period, oo maintained an average of about 1 million concurrent users. The number of active accounts also increased to around 4.8 million. This made everyone at oo extremely excited, signifying the great success of oo's strategy. They had not only broken through the blockade established by QQ's Messenger but also elevated oo's data and strength, marking a significant victory.
However, some held a pessimistic view, stating that these figures were only because QQ lacked a voice function. Once QQ had a voice function, it would instantly snatch away users attracted by oo's voice feature, just like Messenger did before.
"Don't be so pessimistic. Voice functionality isn't something that can be developed quickly. Even with QQ's strong technical capabilities, they can't release QQ Voice in less than two months!" Chen Shoufu encouraged his subordinates when facing pessimistic thoughts. "And with these two months, we can turn these active users into our loyal users. Then, we can fully contend with QQ!"
Chen Shoufu's reasoning was sound, assuming QQ really took more than two months to release QQ Voice.
However, the fact was, as soon as Chen Shoufu finished speaking, one of his subordinates exclaimed, "This is bad! QQ has released an announcement. Their QQ Voice function will begin internal testing tomorrow and will be open to all users!"
"What!" Chen Shoufu jumped up and went to QQ's official website to confirm this astonishing news. After all, the relevant announcement was displayed prominently on the homepage, and even the installation package for the new version was available for download.
"I'm going to find the boss!" Chen Shoufu took this shocking news and went to find Leng Zhimeng. Unexpectedly, Huang He was also in Leng Zhimeng's office.
"Chairman, Boss, something big has happened. QQ is actually..."
"No need to say more. I've already seen QQ's announcement. But this Little Ma, as expected of a chosen one, released QQ Voice in three days. I can't help but suspect if he's a transmigrator!" Boss Huang said with a smile.
"What does transmigrator mean?" Chen Shoufu muttered, but it wasn't important. What was important was that Boss Huang had a smile on his face, as if QQ's announcement wasn't bad news, but rather great news.
"Chairman, have you already thought of a plan to deal with them?" Chen Shoufu recalled Boss Huang's several unconventional strategies in the past that had helped oo overcome crises step by step, and he was curious if Boss Huang had come up with a similar plan this time.
"No, we won't make any moves, and we don't need any plan!" Huang He shook his head and, along with Leng Zhimeng, curved their lips. "If Tengda had launched QQ Voice two months later, I would have felt some regret for missing an opportunity to completely defeat Tengda."
"But since he's launching QQ Voice so quickly tomorrow, he deserves to be unlucky. This time, we don't need to act; Tengda will take care of itself!"
"Tengda takes care of itself? How is that possible?" Chen Shoufu's face was filled with doubt, but he didn't dare to speak. He could only hope for the self-destruction of Tengda that Boss Huang mentioned.