Industrial Communications Handbook August 2016

Chapter 6 Greenfield

Tim Craven

In 1993, South Africa was introduced to GSM – cellphones! The wild, ridiculous five-year penetration targets of all the fancy business plans were breached in three months . We did not have an olde analogue system of phones to migrate from: this was a Greenfield, and we Boldly went Digital.

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