Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry

Book Description

Tracks the evolution of the international cellular industry from the late 1970s to the present.

The 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. Cellular covers the technical aspects of the cellphone, as well as its social and political impact.

Beginning 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.

Cellular is 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.

中文：

书名：蜂窝电话: 国际移动电话行业的经济和商业历史

跟踪国际蜂窝产业从20世纪70年代末到现在的发展。

移动电话行业发展到我们今天所知道的，需要公司、政府和工业部门之间的显著合作。开发蜂窝基础设施，蜂窝设备，蜂窝网络服务以及最终软件和移动半导体的公司必须相互合作，而不仅仅是竞争。在手机行业的全球历史中，Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz和Martin Campbell-Kelly考察了手机在美国，欧洲，日本以及包括中国和印度在内的几个新兴经济体的发展。他们从电话设备和网络运营商的供应商，手机改变了生活的用户以及制定特定手机标准的政府的角度介绍了手机的发展。手机涵盖了手机的技术方面，以及它的社会和政治影响。

从20世纪80年代开始，作者追溯了封闭 (专有) 和开放 (对所有人都可用) 蜂窝标准的发展，随着蜂窝采用率的增加，网络效应的影响，影响移动电话硬件的重大技术变化以及国家政府在塑造行业中的作用。作者还考虑了手机在世界各地人们的日常生活中扮演的角色不断变化，以及5g技术可能对未来产生的影响。最后，他们提供了有关蜂窝行业在世界不同地区增长的速度以及公司如何在这些不同市场中竞争的统计数据。

Cellular出版于《计算史》系列。这个杰出的系列在定义计算史上的学术方面发挥了重要作用。该系列的标志是其技术细节和对主要原始材料的解释。