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| 2007 || Policy || {{w|Google}} opens [[w:Android (operating system)|Android operating system]] for free development and use, making its own services default for search, video and email.<ref name="1876 to 2015 – the History of the Mobile Phone"/> ||
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| 2007 ||Network technology || The first {{w|4G}} network is launched in {{w|South Korea}}.<ref name="1876 to 2015 – the History of the Mobile Phone"/> || {{w|South Korea}}
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| 2007 || Technology || {{w|T-Mobile US}} rolls out a service, T-Mobile HotSpot@Home, that allows a single handset to switch seamlessly from cellular to Wi-Fi access in the home and at the 8,900 T-Mobile Hotspot locations in the United States.<ref>{{cite book |title=Plunkett's Telecommunications Industry Almanac 2009 |edition=Jack W. Plunkett |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=6PUiN5cE7-QC&pg=PT49&lpg=PT49&dq=%22mobile+hotspot%22+%22in+1990..2010%22&source=bl&ots=V03D_VFM35&sig=ACfU3U3QW8mAEihjO-TvCm_bonlTRfs50w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwipkKHmleDjAhWFA9QKHcdrCQAQ6AEwAXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22mobile%20hotspot%22%20%22in%201990..2010%22&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2007 (June 29) || Handset/{{w|mobile operating system}} release || {{w|Apple Inc.}} launches the [[w:iPhone (1st generation)|first-generation iPhone]], along with its mobile operating system {{w|iOS}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=June 29, 2007: Apple Introduces the iPhone (First Apple Cell Phone) |url=https://www.historyandheadlines.com/june-29-2007-apple-introduces-iphone-first-apple-cell-phone/ |website=historyandheadlines.com |accessdate=19 October 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2007 || Coverage || The total number of mobile phone subscribers in the world is estimated at 3.3 billion, equivalent of over half the planet's population.<ref name="Geophysical Hazards: Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Awareness"/> 295 million {{w|3G}} users are estimated around the world. This number accounts for 9% of the total worldwide number of mobile users.<ref name="History of Mobile Cell Phones | The First Cell Phone To Present Time"/> ||
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| 2007 || Network technology || {{w|Hong Kong}} and {{w|Buenos Aires}} become the first cities to install {{w|Wi-Fi}} in their subway systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=Why It's So Damn Hard to Put Internet in the Subway |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a17020/subway-internet-installation/ |website=popularmechanics.com |accessdate=29 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Hong Kong}}, {{w|Argentina}}
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| 2008 || Policy || The {{w|International Telecommunication Union}} (ITU) sets forward a list of requirements for what it calls {{w|IMT Advanced}}, or {{w|4G}}. These requirements include data rates of 1 gigabit per second for a stationary user and 100 megabits per second for a moving user.<ref name="Mobile telephone britannica"/> ||
