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    Universal mobile telephone standard (UMTS) licensing : recent European experience and the South African case by Nicolas Theopold.
    (2001) Theopold, Nicolas
    The telecommunications industry was long regarded to be one of "natural monopoly". Technological development has, however, changed the situation in the industry fundamentally: with the introduction of digital wireless telephony (also called "GSM " or "second generation (2G)), competition could effectively be introduced into the industry, as the new networks rely on antennas instead of fixed cable networks. This made it possible, and in the presence of large numbers of subscribers necessary, to build multiple mobile telephone networks in one country.