I read "Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone" over the weekend and, if you are interested in an easy going background on cellular communications, this is not bad.
It is pretty light on detail, as is probably to be expected of a mass-market book, but it does give a good impression of the highly inefficient way in which cellular services came to the fore. It stops around 2002/3, and so does not touch on 3G/UMTS, other than in the context of Japan, and tries to cover a number of different aspects — social and political effects, the drivers behind different countries' approaches, phones and crime and so on.
It is available for download — no licence specified — from the author's homepage.
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