1 Introduction to the Content of the Book This book describes how global mobile communication was made. It is written for those who want or need to know how this was achieved .: † Young professionals who want to build their career on GSM and UMTS and need to understand the basics † Strategic and technical planners who want to drive the future GSM and UMTS development † Strategists who plan to repeat GSM’s success in the fourth generation † Academics, who want to understand and analyse the development of GSM and UMTS; † Activists in other large scale international communication projects. | GSM and UMTS The Creation of Global Mobile Communication Edited by Friedhelm Hillebrand Copyright 2001 John Wiley Sons Ltd ISBNs 0-470-84322-5 Hardback 0-470-845546 Electronic Chapter 1 GSM s Achievements Section 1 Introduction Friedhelm Hillebrand Introduction to the Content of the Book This book describes how global mobile communication was made. It is written for those who want or need to know how this was achieved . Young professionals who want to build their career on GSM and UMTS and need to understand the basics Strategic and technical planners who want to drive the future GSM and UMTS development Strategists who plan to repeat GSM s success in the fourth generation Academics who want to understand and analyse the development of GSM and UMTS Activists in other large scale international communication projects who want to use experiences gained But the book is also written for those about two thousand colleagues who participated in the work and want to have a record of the events or to have a more comprehensive image of what happened in the different branches of the very big network of groups. GSM is the system which started in Europe and was accepted by the world. It provides global mobile communication to anybody 500 million users from professionals to children in May 2001 anywhere 168 countries in all continents in May 2001 any media voice messaging data multimedia UMTS is built on the GSM footprint and plans to repeat the GSM success. This book is focused on the pre-competitive sphere the big co-operative effort which enabled the huge market success world-wide. The clarification of the strategies the strategic decisions on the broad avenues in service and system design and commercial concepts are described. This book provides an insight into the process of how this was achieved and when. In selected cases it shows the complexity of the process and the antagonism of the interests of the different parties and the consensus building process in .
