Ma Bell's orphan: US cellular telephony, 1947-1996
The AT&T Bell System invented cellular telephony and deployed the world's first prototype cellular system. Strangely, neither AT&T nor its spin-off Regional Bell Operating Companies capitalized on that technological lead, and cellular telephony in the US slipped behind that in other developed countries. This turnaround is explained as a combination of a competency trap that blinded the AT&T Bell System leadership to the importance of the wireless telephony market and the lead their cellular system offered, coupled with a failure of institutional agency required to organize and direct the emerging industry resulting from the death of the AT&T Bell System.
Authors: | King, John Leslie ; West, Joel |
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Telecommunications Policy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0308-5961. - Vol. 26, 3-4, p. 189-203
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Elsevier |
Keywords: | Cellular telephony Competency trap Institutional agency |
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