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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This text 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 won licenses on several continents. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Bidding for the future of a wireless world; 2. From deep traditions; 3. California miseries; 4. Birth of a wireless world; 5. First mover advantages; 6. Innocents abroad; 7. Margaret Thatcher's revolution; 8. Separating from the past; 9. Creating Air Touch; 10. The wireless explosion begins; 11. A call from across the Atlantic; 12. Combining cultures and unfinished business; 13. The emergence of a global powerhouse; 14. A wireless world.

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• Authors: Eric John Abrahamson, Abrahamson Eric John, Louis Galambos, Louis (The Johns Hopkins University) Abr Galambos, Louis Abrahamson Galambos, Galambos Louis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521816168
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81616-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Postal & Telecommunications Industries