Rethinkresearch.biz - In 1997, the somewhat downcast head of an industry alliance devoted to an emerging wireless standard said: "I went to places in the world, and people would not know that any carriers had selected the technology or that it was working. They had been told by manufacturers that it was a miserable failure and that they shouldn't have even considered it. They were always very surprised when I had an operator sitting next to me that said they had experienced quite the opposite."

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