Anytime, Anywhere
Subtitle: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521816168
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Postal & telecommunications industries; Entrepreneurship; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; USA; Telecommunications; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; Wireless communication systems--Economic aspects; Cellular telephone systems; Economic aspects; Wireless communication systems
First sentence: In the twilight at the Los Angeles Coliseum, sprinter Carl Lewis bounced on his toes, shook his arms loose, and then stepped into the blocks.
Description: "This book tells the story of the birth and explosion of cellular and wireless communications by focusing on one of the industry's pioneers, Sam Ginn. As deregulation and privatization swept the globe, Ginn and his team at AirTouch Communications fought for and won licenses on several continents. They built an amazingly successful business using strategic partnerships and joint ventures. In the process, they demonstrated a new model for global entrepreneurship in a high-tech, information-based economy. The combination of AirTouch with Vodafone in 1999, and of Vodafone with Mannesmann in Europe in 2000, has created the largest wireless business in the world.

Vodafone also formed a joint venture with Bell Atlantic to create Verizon Wireless in 2000, the largest wireless company in the United States."--Jacket.