Rating: 
Summary: An entertaining historical account
Review: This is a great book for getting a personal account from the major business personalities involved in building the nation's cell phone system. The way the spectrum was licensed and the companies had to partner makes an exciting read, but I couldn't help wondering about the rest of the story. There's no information about what the Europeans and Japanese were doing and little discussion of the technical aspects of the systems. Although some might consider it dry, a short chapter discussing on how early cell phones worked would give readers an apprecation of how these devices were miracles of modern science and would add a dimension to the story that I feel is missing. The only other disappointment was the biased view of the FCC which, even if true should have been investigated and reported more thouroughly. An example would be how the authors explain that the FCC decided to radically change the licensing rules which took more than a decade to come up with after granting the first 30 licenses. This is a significant event, but the authors don't give any personal perspectives by regulators on exactly why this happened.Overall, I enjoyed the book and recommend it for professionals in any of the telecom fields.
Rating:
Summary: An entertaining historical account
Review: This is a great book for getting a personal account from the major business personalities involved in building the nation's cell phone system. The way the spectrum was licensed and the companies had to partner makes an exciting read, but I couldn't help wondering about the rest of the story. There's no information about what the Europeans and Japanese were doing and little discussion of the technical aspects of the systems. Although some might consider it dry, a short chapter discussing on how early cell phones worked would give readers an apprecation of how these devices were miracles of modern science and would add a dimension to the story that I feel is missing. The only other disappointment was the biased view of the FCC which, even if true should have been investigated and reported more thouroughly. An example would be how the authors explain that the FCC decided to radically change the licensing rules which took more than a decade to come up with after granting the first 30 licenses. This is a significant event, but the authors don't give any personal perspectives by regulators on exactly why this happened. Overall, I enjoyed the book and recommend it for professionals in any of the telecom fields.
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