Who created GSM?
Who created GSM? The world always likes to look for the sole technical inventor of a major new technology development. In the case of GSM the technical innovations were the cooperative efforts of dozens of engineers across many research laboratories. In the main these technical advances were not unique to GSM or to Europe. Comparable technical standards were emerging in other parts of the world over the same period. The big innovation in the case of GSM was political. It was driven over the key period by four people who came together to re-write the rules of how mobile radio would evolve in Europe...
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There have been other key mobile radio developments besides GSM. What is not easy to find are the insider accounts of these developments with the particular insights only those involved at the time can impart. To get the ball rolling we start with the 3G auctions from inside the last company in the UK 3G auction that set the final price with their final bid...that the inside view from the last company to leave the auction without a licence...and here is a space for others to be added in the future
Read MoreVintage Mobiles
The GSM revolution created a global market so huge as to unleash and sustain a glorious 20 years of mobile phone innovation, imagination and sheer competitive energy that has been followed through with 3G and no doubt beyond. What were the key mile-stones in these hand set developments? Which were the mobile phones that in themselves changed the way people use mobile phones?
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The Reference Library has the original text of the political declaration the led to the drawing up of the GSM Memorandum of Understanding and the GSM MoU itself...almost certainly the most important document in mobile radio history. Other authoritative documents and references will be added in due time.
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