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Wireless technologies are not only for enabling communications: they play an important behind-the-scenes part in aiding millions and millions of passengers get safely from A to B daily, by land, sea or air.

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    Petri Launiainen

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Launiainen, P. (2018). Highways in the Sky. In: A Brief History of Everything Wireless. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78910-1_6

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