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industrial communications handbook 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.