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Studying the Use of Mobile Technology

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Wireless World

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Predicting the future is a dangerous game. In the early 1980s the respected consultancy firm McKinsey was asked by AT&T to predict the number of mobile phones which would be in use by the turn of the century. McKinsey confidently predicted that the total market worldwide would be around 900,000, taking into account the poor quality of the devices and the substantial cost of mobile phone calls.1

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Brown, B. (2002). Studying the Use of Mobile Technology. In: Brown, B., Green, N., Harper, R. (eds) Wireless World. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0665-4_1

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