Foreword

Jorge Gató, Vodafone España

At the end of last century—to quote Thomas L. Friedman’s excellent book, The World Is Flat—I was part of the unflat old world, specifically the old telephony world. I was reading (and listening to) the new flat world boys coming at the speed of light to re-do and improve things in months, weeks or even days that had previously taken us years to develop.

I was able to witness the initial days of the Voice over Packets (although, to be precise, voice was over packets when it became digital, years before), the initial trials and the early deployments of Voice over ATM and over IP. It was the time of the “Internet bubble” and a lot of fast innovation was happening, with many new small and smart start-up companies ...

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