GSM created the mobile phone revolution. Its scale economies and open standard transformed mobile radio from professional electronics (high prices, low volumes and moderate pace of innovation) to consumer electronics (high volumes, low prices, very fast pace of innovation). The outcome has changed more lives on the planet than any other electronic development of the past 25 years.
Yet few people know who created GSM? I set up WWW.GSMHistory.Com to put on the public record who created GSM, how it was created and provide public copies of some of the most important historic documents for researchers. There is also on this site an alternative view of the mobile industry history through the evolutions and revolutions of the mobile phone itself. This is not just a technology story but a fascinating industrial design story as well with dozens of much loved iconic designs. Explore the least known history of one of the the best loved items we all carry around every day…click here
The pressing need across Europe is for pro-investment mobile regulation. This book describes, for the first time, what a pro-investment mobile regulatory framework might look like.
Casting the Nets provides an unparalleled insight into the great digital transformation of Britain’s communications networks over the period 1984-2004. It gives a graphic description of industrial policy-in-action and brings to life what is involved.
The most authoratative history of digital mobile phones, from the first ideas jotted down on paper to the global phenonemon it is today, is meticulously detailed on this web site.
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