Preface
Thirteen years ago when I joined this industry, we were bustling to convert business opportunities from military communications to commercial ones. My earliest cellular phone was, by today’s standards, huge, but it was the latest in Motorola flip phones with a pull out antenna. It rode easily in my glove box for emergencies. Back then, that’s how most of us used our cell phones, with calls costing about $1 a minute.
As business models improved, so did the technology. Wireless communication devices were able to proliferate because they got smaller, more functional, and more economical to use. Much of the success of today’s communications market can be attributed to the hard work done by engineers over the years to make “it” smaller, faster, ...
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