New satellite era looms just over the horizon
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New satellite technology makes the delivery of inexpensive high-bandwidth communications services possible. Telecommunications industry companies are planning to spend a combined $42 billion on the new systems, which use a new part of the radio spectrum called the Ka-band. Teledesic, backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates and cellular technology pioneer Craig McCaw, received an FCC licence for its $9-billion project, which will include 840 low-earth orbit satellites deployed by 2002. Other contenders include Hughes Electronics, Lockheed Martin, AT&T, General Electric, and Loral Space and Communications. There are two competing approaches to system architecture: many small, low-orbit satellites or a few giant satellites in high orbits. Many technical problems remain to be solved, and analysts are unsure that market conditions and demand for high bandwidth services will be the same in a few years, when the first of the satellite systems will be implemented.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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Mid-entry technology strategy: the Korean experience with CDMA
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A study developed a new typology of research and development strategy in terms of entry patterns, namely, initial entry, mid-entry and end-entry. The proposed typology focuses on the significance of mid-entry strategy as the approach that characterizes research and development activities of developing countries as they seek to capture emerging patterns in the innovation of science and technology. A case study of the development of code division multiple access-based cellular mobile communication system in Korea is provided.
Publication Name: R & D Management
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0033-6807
Year: 1999
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Analysing disruptive potential: the case of wireless local area network and mobile communications network companies
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Research shows that wireless local area network (W-LAN) technology does not constitute a disruptive technology for established mobile communications network service firms. Disruptive technology is defined using the theory developed by Clayton M. Christensen in 1997.
Publication Name: R & D Management
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0033-6807
Year: 2005
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