Qualcomm
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The US Standards Body and AT&T's Prediction of Cell Phone Popularity
The US standards body in 1980 correctly forecasted the incredible popularity of cell phones in the US./nAT&T commissioned McKinsey and company to predict cell phone usage in the United States in the year 2000./nMcKinsey predicted only 900,000 people would be subscribed to a cellular telephony network in the year 2000./nThe actual number was 109 million people subscribed in the year 2000.
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