GSM Technology Turns 20 Years Old
 

*Source: TechnologyExpert (http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com...ars-old.html)*
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My wife would say it was the beginning of the end of being able to read a book on BART or any other means of public transit - without constant chatter, some of it rudely loud - in your ear. Others would say it was the beginning of a huge recycling problem. Still others would say it was the beginning of a global revolution. Whatever your view, on September 7, 1987 15 phone firms and 13 countries signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications.

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