Garry A. Garrard, Cellular Communications: Worldwide Market Development (Boston: Artech House, 1998). The most useful guide to early mobiles. Rich source of information, especially on the technical side, and for international comparisons
Juliette Garside, ‘Apple’s efforts fail to end gruelling conditions at Foxconn factories. Abuses continue at electronics assembly firm with staff working up to 80 hours’ overtime a month, says Hong Kong rights group’, Guardian, Wednesday 30 May 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/30/foxconn-abuses-despite-apple-reforms
Gerard Goggin, Cellphone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life (London: Routledge, 2006). Excellent guide to the cultural significance of mobile phones. Topics covered by Goggin include mobile phones as badges of identity, text messaging, cameraphones and mobile television. Particularly noteworthy is a very good chapter on cellphones and disability issues
Fiona Graham, ‘M-Pesa: Kenya’s mobile wallet revolution’, BBC News, 22 November 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11793290
Louise Greenwood, ‘Africa’s mobile banking revolution’, BBC News, 12 August 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8194241.stm
Victoria Harrington and Pat Mayhew, Mobile Phone Theft, Home Office Research Study 235, Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, January 2001
Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller, The Cellphone: An Anthropology of Communication (Oxford: Berg, 2006)
iFixit, ‘iPhone 4 teardown’ http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+4+Teardown/3130/1. I couldn’t afford to smash my own iPhone 4, but here is a detailed description of what you see if you strip one down to its components
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (London: Little, Brown, 2011). An excellent biography that has as good access to its difficult subject as could be expected
Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda (eds.), Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005). An edited collection which takes a snapshot of Japanese mobile culture
A. Jagoda and M. de Villepis, Mobile Communications (Chichester: John Wiley, 1993). Published in France in 1991. A good source for the European factors behind GSM
James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus (eds.), Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communications, Private Talk, Public Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Timo Kopomaa, The City in Your Pocket. Birth of the Mobile Information Society (Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2000). Finnish social research, confident that the mobile is reinvigorating public space
Ray Lawrence, The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change (London: Routledge, 1999). Roads and an ‘alteration in the mentalité of space-time’ to produce Romans
Amanda Lenhart, Rich Ling, Scott Campbell, Kristen Purcell, Teens and Mobile Phones, Pew Internet and American Life report, April 2010 http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Leveson, An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, Four Volumes, HC 780-I (London: The Stationery Office, 2012). This is the Leveson report. The inquiry was triggered by revelations about mobile phone hacking, but covered broad questions about the ethics of the press.
Mail on Sunday, ‘The stark reality of iPod’s Chinese factories’, 18 August 2006 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-401234/The-stark-reality-iPods-Chinese-factories.html
Mobile Communications International: A good source of mobile news and international statistics
Jon Mooallem, ‘The afterlife of cellphones’, New York Times, 13 January 2008. Very interesting article on the recycling of phones
Olga Morawczynski and Mark Pickens, ‘Poor people using mobile financial services: observations on customer usage and impact from M-PESA’, CGAP, August 2009
Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion (London: Allen Lane, 2011). Thorough-going and refreshing scepticism
Robert C. Morris, Between the Lines: A Personal History of the British Public Telephone and Telecommunications Service, 1870–1990 (Just Write Publishing Ltd, 1994)
O2, ‘Making calls has become fifth most frequent use for a Smartphone for newly-networked generation of users’, http://news.o2.co.uk/?press-release=making-calls-has-become-fifth-most-frequent-use-for-a-smartphone-for-newly-networked-generation-of-users
Ofcom, The Communications Market Report: United Kingdom, 2012 http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/market-data/communications-market-reports/cmr12/uk/. This report found ‘for the first time ever, a fall in the volume of mobile calls (by just over 1%) in 2011’. Also contains good data on other mobile consumer trends
Public Record Office: HO/255 series has many interesting files relating to early mobile radio in the UK
Richard Robison and David S.G. Goodman, The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and Middle-Class Revolution (London: Routledge, 1996)
Alissa J. Rubin, ‘Taliban using modern means to add to sway’, New York Times, 4 October 2011
Leo G. Sands, Guide to Mobile Radio (New York: Greensback Library, Inc., 1958)
Jeffery Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000)
Kim Severson and Robbie Brown, ‘Outlawed, cellphones are thriving in prisons’, New York Times, 2 January 2011
Taimoor Shah, ‘Taliban threatens Afghan cellphone companies’, New York Times, 26 February 2008
Daniel Jordan Smith, ‘Cellphones, Social Inequality, and Contemporary Culture in Nigeria’, Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 40(3) (2006), pp. 496–523
Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (eds.), Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012). Edited collection of essays on the iPhone, from a media studies perspective
Dan Steinbock, The Nokia Revolution: The Story of an Extraordinary Company that Transformed an Industry (New York: AMACOM, 2001). Business history of the Finnish giant.
Alan Stone, How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
Hiroko Tabuchi, ‘Why Japan’s cellphones haven’t gone global’, New York Times, 20 July 2009
Times of India, ‘Mischievous SMSs on northeast people now doing the rounds in Delhi’, 18 August 2012
Matthew Wells, ‘New Yorkers fight mobile phone ban’, BBC News, 25 May 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5013424.stm
Charlotte Windle, ‘China’s rich fuel mobile revolution’, BBC News, 5 December 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4500692.stm
World Bank, Maximising Mobile, 2012 http://go.worldbank.org/FFOU51MTQ0
Peter Young, Person to Person: The International Impact of the Telephone (Cambridge: Granta Editions, 1991)
Index
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3G 177, 181, 186–192, 204, 258
4G 258
Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) 42, 44, 82, 92
Afghanistan 234–235
aircraft, mobile phones in 248–249
AirTouch Communications 88
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) 30, 39, 41–43
Android 208–209, 230
Apple 5, 19, 70, 181, 193–218, 226–227, 229, 246
apps 101, 104, 201–202, 228–229
Arab Spring 236
ARM Holdings 218
Åsdal, Carl-Gösta 50
Australia 17, 65, 112
Bangladesh 104, 123
batteries 11, 13, 15, 217–218
Bell Labs 22, 39–41
BlackBerry 171, 193–194, 208
British Telecom (BT) 80–81, 83–84
camera phones 221–225
cars and phones 10, 14, 38–39, 74–79, 147–153, 247
CB radio 149–150, 254
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) 69–70, 93, 187, 233
Cellnet 82–84, 88–89, 160, 188
cells and the cellular idea 24–27
China 92–93, 102, 106–107, 112, 206, 213–217, 219, 238, 242
coltan 17–18
computers 178–179, 196–198, 216
Congo, Democratic Republic of 18, 117–118, 120, 122
containerisation 183–185
conversation 72–74
Cooper, Martin 41
Corning Inc. 200
crime 147–149, 158–159, 247
Cuba 251–252
dead time 85
Denmark 47, 49, 64
Dowler, Milly 163, 165–166
Egypt 237
EIN (Equipment Identification Number) 156
Ericsson, Lars Magnus 13–14, 20, 247
Estrada, Joseph 113–115, 236
Europe 58–67
e-waste 122
Facebook 180, 230, 237, 244
Fascia 132, 136
FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access) 68, 187
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 21, 39–42, 143
Finland 19, 64, 132–140, 190
flashing 124–125
Foxconn 214–215
France 19, 55, 64, 88, 155, 158, 231
Galvin, Paul V. 38
games 139, 180–181, 202, 228–229
Garrard, Garry A. 44, 46, 55, 92, 112, 186
General Post Office (GPO) 28–30, 76–77, 139
Germany 54–57, 64, 88, 156, 188, 231, 244
Goggin, Gerard 222
Google 103, 192, 208–209, 212, 225–226
GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile or Global System for Mobile) 47, 58–67, 73, 85, 92, 95, 98, 119, 136, 156, 181, 186–187, 204, 218, 232–233, 241, 256
Guinea 120–121
Haiti 118
hand-portables 45–46, 66
happy slapping 223–225
health, mobile phones as a threat to 141–146
Hong Kong 112, 122
Hutchison Whampoa 192
IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) 104, 157
i-Mode 96–100, 186, 189
India 102–106
intellectual property 209–211
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) 21
iPhone 70, 107, 139, 180–181, 199–206, 212, 214–219, 223, 226–227, 246, 252
Iran 237, 239–240
Iraq 231–234
Italy 54, 64, 190
Ive, Jonathan 198
Japan 19, 53, 94–101, 222, 244
Jobs, Steve 5, 194, 196, 199–200, 205, 208, 217, 260–261
Johnson, E.F. 41
Kabila, Laurent 117
Kenya 127–131, 191
Korea, North 238
Korea, South 19, 207–209, 211–212
Leveson, Lord and Leveson report 163–168
Liberia 120
liquid crystal displays 16–17
location, phones and 225–227
Lost Highway 171, 173
Marconi, Guglielmo 11–13, 20, 191
Matrix, The 172
McLuhan, Marshall 220
Mercury Communications Ltd 80
Microsoft 30, 197, 212
Millicom 41, 81, 91
Mobile Switching Centres 26
Morozov, Evgeny 239–240
Motorola 18–19, 38–39, 41, 45–46, 66–67, 198, 209, 212
movies, mobile phones and 169–174
M-PESA 127–131, 191
Netz-C 56, 156
New York World’s Fair 35–38
newspapers 89, 161–168
Niger 120
Nigeria 119–122, 125, 170–171, 261
Nokia 18–19, 53, 66, 88, 132–140, 172–173, 180, 208, 212
Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) group and standard 50–53, 54, 58, 63, 65, 81, 136, 185
Norway 47, 49
NTT and NTT DoCoMo 94–100, 113
O2 88
Ollila, Jorma Jaako 135–140
One 2 One 86–89, 188
Orange 86–89, 188, 232
Pakistan 104–106, 122, 261
pay as you go 87, 122–123, 151, 153
PCN (Personal Communications Networks) 84–86
personal digital assistants 197
personal technologies 9–10, 179
Philippines 113–116, 236
phone hacking 161–168
predictive text 139
prisons, mobile phones in 243–244
privacy 69, 168, 221–222, 242
privatisation 80
Qualcomm 70, 93, 249
radio spectrum and radio frequency allocation 20–23, 27, 76–77, 187
Radiocom 2000 55
railways 72, 221, 249–250
ringtones 2, 11, 241
Ring, D.H. 5, 24–28
roaming 62–63
Roman Empire 255–256
royalty 74–77, 89, 161
Russia 65, 90–92, 231
Rwanda 117, 126
Samsung 18–19, 207–212, 218, 246
schools, mobile phones in 244–246
security state 167
Siemens 11, 19, 55
SIM cards 56, 122, 156
Skype 192
Slovenia 190
smartphones 4–5, 107, 140, 175–230, 241, 243, 246, 258, 260–261
Somalia 120
Sony 19, 94, 212
South Africa 65, 119, 126
Spain 54, 86
standards 44, 50–52, 58–67, 69–70, 81–82, 85–86, 183–185, 231–233
Sudan 124–126
Sweden 13–14, 19, 47–50, 54, 63–64, 188
Symbian 140, 212
TACS (Total Access Communications System) 82, 85–86, 92
Taliban 234–235
tantalum 17–18
Tanzania 121, 123, 126
TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) 69–70, 187
terrorism 154, 158, 174, 223, 251
text messaging 63, 111–116, 139, 240, 250, 257
theatres, mobile phones in 242–243
T-Mobile 88, 232
Toshiba 19
Tunisia 237
Turkey 260–261
Twitter 202, 230, 237–239, 250
Uganda 126
United Kingdom 12–13, 64, 72–89, 114, 151–153, 161–168, 187–188, 190, 231, 243
United States 19, 22, 35–46, 48, 65, 69–71, 82, 93, 114, 153–154, 183–184, 187–188, 194–206, 211, 219, 231, 244–247, 250–252
Verizon Wireless 188, 190
Vimpel and VimpelCom 92
Vodafone 81–82, 87–89, 102–103, 127, 162, 188, 191, 232
walkie-talkie 39
Wall Street 170
walled garden 98, 101, 195
WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) 98–99, 186, 189
watches and clocks 9–11, 177
wi-fi 192
World Bank 102, 104, 129, 260
yuppies 82–83
Zimbabwe 120, 247
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