6 ◾ Mobile Evolution: Insights on Connectivity and Service
exibility, for the nascent mobile communication ecosystem. Mobile phone users were empow-
ered to select mobile devices to suit their preferences in terms of both form and function. Mobile
service providers were aorded choices through a standards-compliant, multivendor environment
to suit business directions.
With the transition from 1G to 2G systems, mobile communications continued to evolve to
augment voice communications with data-oriented communications. ese additional capabilities
manifested in terms of the adoption of text messaging as either a complement or an alternative to
voice communications. e initial text messaging capabilities appeared in Finland, in 1993. Other
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