{"product_id":"cellular-isbn-9780262543927","title":"Cellular","description":"\u003cb\u003eTracks the evolution of the international cellular industry from the late 1970s to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe development of the mobile-phone industry into what we know today required remarkable cooperation between companies, governments, and industrial sectors. Companies developing cellular infrastructure, cellular devices, cellular network services, and eventually software and mobile semiconductors had to cooperate, not simply compete, with each other. In this global history of the mobile-phone industry, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly examine its development in the United States, Europe, Japan, and several emerging economies, including China and India. They present the evolution of mobile phones from the perspective of vendors of telephone equipment and network operators, users whose lives have been transformed by mobile phones, and governments that have fostered specific mobile-phone standards. \u003ci\u003eCellular \u003c\/i\u003ecovers the technical aspects of the cellphone, as well as its social and political impact.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBeginning with the 1980s, the authors trace the development of closed (proprietary) and open (available to all) cellular standards, the impact of network effects as cellular adoption increased, major technological changes affecting mobile phone hardware, and the role of national governments in shaping the industry. The authors also consider the changing roles that cellular phones have played in the everyday lives of people around the world and the implications 5G technology may have for the future. Finally, they offer statistics on how quickly the cellular industry grew in different regions of the world and how firms competed in those various markets.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCellular \u003c\/i\u003eis published in the History of Computing Series. This distinguished series has played a major role in defining   scholarship in the history of computing. Hallmarks of the series are its   technical detail and interpretation of primary source materials.Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003eI The First Generation, the 1980s 11\u003cbr\u003e1 The Long Road to the First Cellular Systems 13\u003cbr\u003e2 The First Cellular Systems: Japan, Europe, and The United States 35\u003cbr\u003e3 Competing in the Early Cellular Markets 65\u003cbr\u003eII The Second Generation, the 1990s 95\u003cbr\u003e4 New Technologies, Standards, Customers, and Markets in the World of 2G 97\u003cbr\u003e5 Cellular Systems in the World of 2G: Britain, The United States, Continental Europe, China, and India 121\u003cbr\u003e6 Competing in 2G Cellular Markets 151\u003cbr\u003eIII The Third Generation, the 2000s 175\u003cbr\u003e7 New Technologies, Standards, Customers, and Markets in the World of 3G 177\u003cbr\u003e8 Emergent Digital Markets: New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the Asia-Pacific Region, Israel, Brazil, and Mexico 205\u003cbr\u003e9 Competing in 3G Cellular Markets 235\u003cbr\u003eIV The Fourth Generation, the 2010s 263\u003cbr\u003e10 New Standards, Operating Systems, Devices, and Markets in the World of 4G 265\u003cbr\u003e11 Cellular Systems in Africa 283\u003cbr\u003e12 Competing in 4G Cellular Markets 313\u003cbr\u003eConclusions 339\u003cbr\u003eNotes 347\u003cbr\u003eIndex 379“\u003ci\u003eCellular\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable book for those wishing to understand how modern communications and the fourth industrial revolution came to be. Their narrative is at once thought provoking and entertaining. A required reference.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, \u003cb\u003eProfessor, Northumbria University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This is an outstanding global history of the cellular phone industry and its technologies, companies, and economics.  It is well written, beautifully researched, and reflects the authors’ mastery of a complicated history.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James W. Cortada, \u003cb\u003eSenior Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDaniel D. Garcia-Swartz is an economist at Charles River Associates in Chicago. Martin Campbell-Kelly is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. 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