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| 2001 || Technology || The popularity of {{w|voice over IP}} grows with startlingly rapid progress, with the number of installed voice-over-IP networks, the number of players in the voice-over-IP arena, the dollars spent on voice-over-IP products, the number of channels shipped and even the capacity of voice-over-IP products, all having doubled within a year.<ref>{{cite book |title=Network World 29 Jan 2001 |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=dBsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%22Voice+over+IP%22+%22in+1970..2015%22&source=bl&ots=GNFd6MjzMu&sig=ACfU3U1B-0AvlbBUFxrFpmlwWV5-A3GUGw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjC49aw587jAhUJpFkKHczuB_oQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Voice%20over%20IP%22%20%22in%201970..2015%22&f=false}}</ref> ||
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| 2002 || Handset release || The {{w|Handspring (company)|Handspring]]'s {{w|Treo 180}} is released. It is the first smartphone that fully integrates the {{w|smart Palm OS}} on a GSM mobile phonehaving telephony, SMS messaging and Internet access built into the OS. The 180 model has a thumb-type keyboard and the [[w:Treo 180g|180g]] version has a [[w:Graffiti (Palm OS)|Graffiti]] handwriting recognition area, instead.<ref>{{cite web|title=Handspring Treo Communicator 180 |publisher=mobiletechreview.com |accessdate=2016-02-01 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617023521/http://www.mobiletechreview.com/handspring_treo.htm |archive-date=June 17, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} is invented.</ref><ref name="cell phone Timeline"/><ref name="Week 3- Timeline of the cell-phone"/> ||
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| 2002 (June) || Organization || The {{w|Open Mobile Alliance}} (OMA) is formed as a {{w|standards body}} with aims at developing {{w|open standard}}s for the {{w|mobile phone}} industry.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Open Mobile Alliance: Delivering Service Enablers for Next-Generation Applications|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1817021|website=acm.org|accessdate=30 July 2017}}</ref> ||
| 2008 || Technology || Several mobile phone providers in the {{w|United States}} start to include {{w|IPv6}} capabilities in their phones.<ref>{{cite web |title=IPv6 on Your Mobile Phone |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2233853/cisco-subnet-ipv6-on-your-mobile-phone.html |website=networkworld.com |accessdate=6 August 2019}}</ref> IPv6 is the most recent version of the {{w|Internet Protocol}} (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the {{w|Internet}}. || {{w|United States}}
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| 2009 (January) || Service Mobile application || {{w|Whatsapp}} is launched.<ref name="1876 to 2015 – the History of the Mobile Phone"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Whatsapp Success Story|url=https://successstory.com/products/whatsapp|website=successstory.com|accessdate=26 July 2017}}</ref> ||
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| 2009 || Network technology || Swedish telephone company [[w:Telia Company|TeliaSonera]] introduces the first {{w|4G}} [[w:LTE (telecommunication)|LTE]] network in {{w|Stockholm}}.<ref name="Mobile telephone britannica"/> || {{w|Sweden}}
| 2011 || Mobile as a modem || The Verizon iPhone is released. It includes the 'Personal Hotspot" feature which allows a user to use the iPhone as a wireless [[w:hotspot (Wi-Fi)|hotspot]], with up to five devices connecting at one time.<ref name="vsw verizon iP4 record 1">{{cite press release|title=Verizon Wireless Has Record Sales On First Day Of iPhone 4|url=http://news.vzw.com/news/2011/02/pr2011-02-04.html|publisher={{w|Verizon Wireless}}|accessdate=February 4, 2011|date=February 4, 2011}}</ref><ref name="wp verizon iP4 release 1">{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/liveblog_the_verizon_iphone.html|work=The Washington Post|title=Liveblog: The Verizon iPhone|date=|accessdate=}}</ref><ref name="npr verizon iP4 release 1">{{cite web|last=Memmott|first=Mark|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/11/132833078/its-official-verizon-has-iphone-4|title=It's Official: Verizon Has The iPhone 4: The Two-Way|publisher=NPR|date=January 11, 2011|accessdate=31 July 2019}}</ref><ref name="wsj verizon iP4 release 1">{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703791904576075681886276172|work=The Wall Street Journal|first=Shayndi|last=Raice|title=Verizon Unwraps iPhone|date=January 12, 2011}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2011 || Statistics Network technology || As of date, 90% of the world's population live in areas with {{w|2G}} coverage, while 45% live in areas with {{w|2G}} and {{w|3G}} coverage, and 5% live in areas with {{w|4G}} coverage. By 2017 more than 90% of the world's population is expected to have 2G coverage, 85% is expected to have 3G coverage, and 50% will have 4G coverage.<ref name=ITU-ITCFacts>[http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/facts/2011/material/ICTFactsFigures2011.pdf "The World in 2011: ITC Facts and Figures"], International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Geneva, 2011</ref> ||
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| 2012 || Organization || The British Government announces the establishment of a {{w|5G}} Innovation Centre at the {{w|University of Surrey}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ccsr/business/5GIC/|title=5G Innovation Centre|work=University of Surrey - Guildford|accessdate= 29 July 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
| 2017 || Network technology || As of date, more than 90% of the world's population is expected to have {{w|2G}} coverage, 85% is expected to have {{w|3G}} coverage, and 50% {{w|4G}} coverage.<ref name=Ericsson-Nov2012>[http://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2012/ericsson-mobility-report-november-2012.pdf ''Ericsson Mobility Report''], Ericsson, November 2012</ref> ||
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| 2020 (March) || Network technology || The {{w|London Underground}} is expected to get {{w|4G}} access in its tunnels and stations by this time.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Porter |first1=Jon |title=4G is coming to the London Underground’s tunnels next year |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/19/20700451/london-underground-4g-tunnels-cellular-reception-mobile-phones |website=theverge.com |accessdate=29 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=4G on Jubilee line tunnel section from March 2020 |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2019/july/4g-on-jubilee-line-tunnel-section-from-march-2020 |website=tfl.gov.uk |accessdate=29 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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* [[Timeline of WhatsApp]]
* [[Timeline of Wi-Fi]]
* [[Timeline of NTT Docomo]]
* [[Timeline of Xiaomi]]
* [[Timeline of money transfer]]
* [[Timeline of IPv6 adoption]]
* [[Timeline of 5G]]
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