Hey, > Do you know how GSM mobile phones became an international standard? The > Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland) agreed on > a common standard for mobile phone communications. The Nordic countries > don't have the largest populations of any countries in the world, nor are > they necessarily the most advanced countries in every area. The only > reason that GSM became a standard was through mutual agreement, rather > than competition in the mobile phone area. No other country could agree > on another standard, because all the different companies' and countries' > interests were too divergent. In the states, they have yet to achieve > even a nationwide GSM coverage because of all of the competing standards. > Talk about a nightmare scenario!
Just to clarify, AFAIK the nordic countries established the NMT standard, which stands for Nordic Mobile Telecommunication (or Telephone?). GSM was created by the Group Speciale Mobile (sp?), later renamed to Global Standard for Mobile communication. Bye Roman
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