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Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Louis Galambos
By (author) Eric John Abrahamson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:322
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreEntrepreneurship
ISBN/Barcode 9780521398565
ClassificationsDewey:338.04
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 21 July 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Wireless entrepreneurs are transforming the way people live and work around the globe. In the process they have created some of the fastest-growing companies on the planet. This book tells the story of the birth and explosion of cellular and wireless communications as seen through the eyes of one of the industry's pioneers, Sam Ginn. As deregulation and privatisation swept the globe, Ginn and his team at Air Touch 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 Air Touch with Vodafone in 1999, and Vodafone with Mannesmann in Europe in 2000 created the largest wireless business in the world. Vodafone also formed a joint venture with Bell Atlantic to create the largest wireless company in America.

Reviews

Review of the hardback: '... the combination of academic insights with the 'insider' perspective derived from interviews with key players makes for a very readable and interesting book.' Business History