ABSTRACT
Mobile telephone markets have experienced exponential rates of growth since the introduction of the earliest cellular mobile phone networks in the early 1980s. Between 1994 and 1995, for example, the number of subscribers in the world that were connected to mobile phone networks increased from 34 million to around 55 million. A race for worldwide technological leadership and market dominance is now under way as new competitors challenge the established position of the world’s leading manufacturers of mobile handsets and mobile phone systems: Motorola in the US and Ericsson and Nokia in Europe.
