In 1963 he took on the Bell monopoly in founding Microwave Communications Inc.

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Bill McGowan became involved as a private banker with a small Midwestern company, Microwave Communications Inc. that was trying to sell microwave telephony services to truckers.

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When Gilbert Johnson retired as head of a microwave communications company near San Francisco four years ago, he and his wife, Donna, planned to cruise the Panama Canal in their 50-foot motorboat and settle in Annapolis, Md.

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Yet despite high costs of entry and regulatory limits on spectrum availability and infrastructure investment, new technologies (LTE, satellite, microwave, and higher-frequency communications) and new competitors continue to enter the market all the time.

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