Brick to slick – a series of articles looking at the 30th anniversery of the cell phone.
“(AT&T) thought they should control all communications,” Galvin said. “They were going to take over the two-way radio business. This became evident to me. I think that one of the things that I did bring to the company was backbone. I said: ‘We can’t let them take over our business. There has to be competition. That’s better than a monopoly.’ They had a monopoly, but we had experience to back us up. And we beat them.”