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

by Louis Galambos , Eric John Abrahamson

• ISBN13: 9780521398565
• ISBN10: 0521398568
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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. Anytime, Anywhere 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 privatization swept the globe, Ginn and his team at AirTouch Communications fought for and won licenses on several continents. They built a successful business using strategic partnerships and joint ventures and demonstrated a new model for global entrepreneurship in an information-based economy. Louis Galombos is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He has written numerous books and articles on entrepreneurship, innovation and regulation, including Networks of Innovation (Cambridge, 1996) and The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth (Basic, 1989), He is President of the Business History Group. Eric Abrahamson is Principal Historian with The Prologue Group. His research has dealt with telecommunications, banking and regulation in California.

Table of Contents

Bidding for the future of a wireless world

From deep traditions

California miseries

Birth of a wireless world

First mover advantages

Innocents abroad

Margaret Thatcher's revolution

Separating from the past

Creating Air Touch

The wireless explosion begins

A call from across the Atlantic

Combining cultures and unfinished business

The emergence of a global powerhouse

A wireless world

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