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Antitrust regulators in Brussels and Washington began sniffing around. The cozy hotel bars were replaced by legally binding FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory) licensing terms. The Mafia, if it ever truly existed, had to go legit. Was the GSM Mafia good or evil?
They built the single most successful technical standard in human history. Because of them, you can land in 220 countries, turn on your phone, and it just works . They killed vendor lock-in. They made mobile phones affordable. And they did it before Silicon Valley realized the internet could be mobile.
They were unelected technocrats who decided the future of global communication without democratic oversight. They favored European industry over American and Asian competitors. They created patent thickets that still cause billion-dollar lawsuits today.