Spectrum WarsThe Policy and Technology Debate

In early 2002, when the idea for this book was born and initial drafting began, the outlook for the telecommunications industry, including the wireless world, was beginning to look bleak, especially in comparison to the growth days of the late 1990s. Certain wireless telecommunications companies, such as Winstar and Metricom, began to face financial trouble, but the truly wide-ranging problems that began to impact the entire telecommunications market in mid-2002 were not yet evident. Few, if any, experts foresaw the impending bankruptcy of the telecommunications giant, WorldCom, or the dissolution of other major telecommunications companies, such as KPN Qwest and Teleglobe.

Từ khóa: telecommunications industry, công nghiệp viễn thông, wireless telecommunications, viễn thông không dây, công nghệ viễn thông, kỹ thuật viễn thông