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mike_hearn on July 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: From Google to Amazon: EU goes to war against powe...

GSM was not created by European governments though. It was created by ETSI which is independent. And newer standards are international collaborations: as is so often the case as technology gets more complicated, it ends up being a creation of humanity rather than one geographical region vs another.

justincormack on July 7, 2014 [–]

ETSI is part of the EU mechansims, as the telecom standards body, and the EU decided to mandate a shared standard.

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