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PFF just released a case study on Standards in Digital Networks: The Case of 2G Mobile Phones, by Andrew L. Russell, a Ph.D. student in the Department of the History of Science and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University.
The reason for commissioning the paper, as set out in our news release:
An examination of standards-setting by the U.S. and Europe in digital mobile phones can provide "a window on how next-generation Internet, telephone, or television networks will work," according to a new paper released today by The Progress and Freedom Foundation. Standards are "the lingua franca of digital networks," writes Andrew L. Russell, and he provides a case study on the role of standards in 2G mobile phone deployment in Europe and the U.S. The upshot of the analysis is that standard-setting problems are indeed difficult, that different approaches have different costs and benefits, and that there seem to be no dominant solutions. (Surprise!)
posted by James DeLong @ 8:48 AM | General
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