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Revision as of 12:33, 28 July 2017

This is a timeline of mobile telephony.

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Time period Development summary
1900s Radio transmission is achieved by creating bursts of sparks generated by electrical voltages.[1]
1930s The idea of a cell phone begins.[2]
1940s Communication by mobile radios becomes more common. Most government agencies, as well as the rich people, own mobile radios.[3] AT&T and Bell Labs introduce cellular technology. However, mobile phones would not develop widespread use at the time.[4] US Signal Corps communicate via radio in field during World War 2.[5]
1960s Researchers develop the technology systems – like frequency reuse and handoff – that would lead to modern cellular networks.[4] In the United States, Bell Labs prepares a detailed plan for implementing the cellular system.[6] Soviet engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich develops very small mobile phones.
1980s Adding text messaging functionality to mobile devices begins. The first–generation mobile phone system is introduced in North America.[6].
1990s Second–generation wireless telephone technology (2G) becomes available.[7] Mobile phone operators start offering prepay mobile phones. European and American networks start to split apart and compete against one another.[4]

Full timeline

Year Event type Details
1876 (March 10) Antecedent Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, makes the first phone call.[8] United States
1894 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi transmits signals over the distance of 2 kms.[9]
1906 Canadian-born inventor Reginald Fessenden manages to broadcast music through radio.[9] United States
1908 A man claims to have invented a wireless telephone. Being considered so crazy for this time, he is accused of fraud. The charges are later dropped.[4]
1921 Antecedent The Detroit Police Department introduce mobile radios in their police cars, giving rise to the car–to–car radios. However, the system doesn't work very well at the time.[3][10] United States
1924 Wireless phones are tested on trains running between Berlin and Hamburg.[4] Germany
1940 Second World War: Hand-held radio receivers become widely available, opening up communications in battlefields around the world.[4]
1945 Network launch The first service created just for mobile phones launches in Saint Louis, but the service doesn't work well and it does not last.[3][10] United States
1946 (June) Network launch American company Bell Labs begins to offer mobile telephone services on vehicles in Saint Louis. A few weeks later, AT&T matches Bell Labs, offering its Mobile Telephone Service (0G equivalent, at the time a wide range of mostly incompatible mobile telephone services with limited coverage areas and a small number of available channels.[4]
1946 Network launch Interconnection of mobile transmitters and receivers with the Public switched telephone network (PSTN) begins in the United States, with the introduction of Mobile Telephone Service (MTS) by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.[11] United States
1947 Technology Engineers at Bell Labs seek ways to implement cell service in vehicles, theorizing that hexagonal cells would work best for them. The first car phone service is attempted. A car phone service opens between Boston and New York, but this service soon fails.[3] The same year, base stations for mobile phones come into being when engineers from Bell Labs develop the first stations.[4] United States
1947 American research company Bell Labs is the first to propose a cellular radio telephone network.[1][6] United States
1948 Service coverage The Mobile Telephone Service, initially only available in Saint Louis, becomes now available in about 100 towns in the United States. "With this service, an estimated 5,000 customers placed approximately 30,000 calls each week. Each call had to be manually connected by an operator. The system also functioned similar to a Walkie-Talkie: you had to push down a button your handset to talk, then release that button to listen." The Mobile Telephone Service in the vehicle requires about 36kg of equipment. An expensive service, it costs approximately US$ 15 per month (same buying power as $154.76 in 2017) plus an additional $0.30 to $0.40 per local call. [4] United States
1952 Network launch A-Netz network is launched as a Mobile Radio Network in West Germany.[4][12] West Germany
1956 Service launch The first ever partly automatic car phone system, Mobile System A (MTA), is introduced in Sweden. [13][14][3] Sweden
1960 Network launch Ericsson Company releases the first fully automated mobile telephone. Introduced in Sweden, the system, known in Swedish as Mobiltelefonisystem A (MTA), allows for automated connection from a rotary handset (that’s the circular dialing knob to me and you) mounted within a car, but requires an operator to forward calls.[9][15][15] Sweden
1963 Network launch Altai mobile telephone system is introduced as a pre-cellular 0G radiotelephone service in the Soviet Union. Soviet Union
1957–1961 Product development Soviet engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich develops a number of mobile phones that look surprisingly similar to modern mobile devices. One of these devices weighs just 70 grams and can fit into the palm of the hand.[4]
1959 Network launch The Post Office Radiophone Service is launched in Manchester. The system requires callers to connect through an operator. However, that operator could connect users to any subscriber across all of Great Britain.[4] United Kingdom
1962 AT&T develops a prototype for the first generation cellular mobile communications technology.[16] United States
1962 Network launch Swedish Mobiltelefonisystem A (MTA) is replaced by Mobiltelefonisystem B (MTB), which uses transistorized mobile sets. This system would last until 1983.[15] Sweden
1964 Pre-cellular VHF/UHF radio system launch Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS) is introduced by AT&T as a replacement to Mobile Telephone Service (MTS) and improved on most MTS systems by offering direct-dial rather than connections through a live operator.[11]
1968 System standard development Bell Labs starts developing the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) standard.[6]
1969 Engineers from the Nordic countries meet and set up the first mobile phone system international standard, the Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT).[17] {{w:Scandinavia}}
1971 New term The term cell comes into play when AT&T proposes splitting phone service into different areas across the cities. These areas are called cells.[3][10] United States
1971 Network launch Autoradiopuhelin (ARP) network is launched in Finland. It is one of the first successful public commercial mobile phone networks.[16] Finland
1972 Network launch B-Netz mobile radio network is launched in West Germany.[4] Germany
1973 The first mobile call is made by a Motorola employee. The phone weighs over a kilo and takes 10 hours to charge.[8] "On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first analog mobile phone call using a heavy prototype model. He called Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs."[18] "In 1973, 10 years before a cell phone was first released onto the market, the first cell phone call was made by Motorola researcher and executive Martin Cooper"[4]
1979 (December) Network launch 1G, the first generation of wireless telephone technology, is launched in Japan by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). It becomes the world's first mobile phone network to be launched.[8] Initially deployed in the metropolitan area of Tokyo, within five years, the NTT network expand to cover the whole population of Japan and becomes the first nationwide 1G network.[11][7][4] Japan
1981–1986 Network launch The Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system opens in Sweden and Norway. NMT is the first mobile phone network to feature international roaming. The system is introduced in Denmark and Finland in 1982, and in Iceland in 1986.[19][8][11][16] Scandinavia, Finland
1981 Network launch The Saudi mobile phone network becomes operational.[6] Saudi Arabia
1982 The European standard for ptotorypes is established.[17]
1983 Network launch The Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) is officially introduced in North America.[20][16][21] The system would further expand into Canada in 1985, later in Mexico, Colombia, Korea, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and finally all Latin American countries.[22]
1983 (March 6) The world’s first cell phone is launched. "In 1983, the first 1G network launched in the USA was Chicago-based Ameritech using the Motorola DynaTAC mobile phone." The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X becomes the first mobile for sale in the United States. It costs US$ 4000 (equivalent to $9,894.75 in 2017).[8][11][4] American engineer Martin Cooper is credited with developing the device.[5] United States
1983 Network launch The Total Access Communication System (TACS) (1G) is released in the United Kingdom as a variant of the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS).[22][11][6] United Kingdom
1983 Network launch AMR radiotelephone network (Automatizovaný Městský Radiotelefon in Czech language) enters full mode as the very first analog mobile radio telephone in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia
1984 Network launch Airborne cellular systems: The North American terrestrial system (NATS) is introduced in the United States by GTE Corporation.[11] United States
1985 The Nordic Mobile Telephone grows to 110,000 subscribers in Scandinavia and Finland, 63,300 in Norway alone, which makes it the world's largest mobile network at the time.[23]
1985 The first mobile call in the United Kingdom is made.[8] United Kingdom
1985 Network launch The Radio Telephone Network C (C-Netz), is introduced in Germany as a first generation analog cellular phone system. Germany
1985 Study A study group of the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) begins to consider specifications for Future Public Land Mobile Telephone Systems (FPLMTS). These specifications would eventually become the basis for a set of “third-generation” (3G) cellular standards, known collectively as IMT-2000.[11]
1988 Program launch A group of government-owned public telephone bodies within the European Community announce the creation of a digital Global System for Mobile Communications (originally Groupe Spécial Mobile), referred to as GSM, the first such system that would permit any cellular user in one European country to operate in another European country with the same equipment. GSM would soon become ubiquitous throughout the continent.[11]
1989 Product Motorola MicroTAC 9800X is released. It becomes the first phone to feature a flip–down, and also the smallest and lightest phone available at the time.[24][8]
1990 Technology The old AMPS networks are replaced by w:Digital AMPS (D-AMPS).[4]
1991 Technology "Second-generation 2G cellular telecom networks were commercially launched on the GSM standard in Finland by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991."[25]" The first wireless Internet access becomes available as part of this generation.[7] The first GSM call is made by the Finnish prime minister in Finland. [6] Finland
1992 (December 3) The first text message is sent.[8][10]
1992 "In Europe the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) adopted a terrestrial APC system known as the terrestrial flight telephone system (TFTS) in 1992"[11]
1993 The first ever SMS text message is sent in Finland.[4] Finland
1994 (August 16) The IBM Simon features a touch screen and is the first phone to feature apps. It costs US$ 899.[8] "many call 1993’s IBM Simon the world’s first smartphone."[4]
1996 "The first mobile phone to enable internet connectivity and wireless email, the Nokia Communicator, was released in 1996, creating a new category of multi-use devices called smartphones"
1996 (January) Product The Motorola StarTAC is release as a clamshell mobile phone. Manufactured by Motorola is the first ever clamshell/flip mobile phone.[26][8][4] United States
1996 The Nokia 8110 is launched. Its distinctive styling is the first example of a 'slider' form factor.[8]
1997 Product Dutch technology company Philips introduces "The Synergy", an early attempt at a digital smartphone. The unit provides wireless access to e-mail, internet and faxes.[5][10]
1997 (December) Nokia 6110 is launched. "Rumor has it this phone could survive a nuclear explosion. You could throw this phone off buildings, drop it on the floor, and nothing seemed to phase it. It also had a whopping three (!) games, including the ever-popular Memory, Snake, and Logic".[4]
1997–1998 "The first LEO system intended for commercial service was the Iridium system, designed by Motorola, Inc., and owned by Iridium LLC, a consortium made up of corporations and governments from around the world. The Iridium concept employed a constellation of 66 satellites orbiting in six planes around Earth. They were launched from May 1997 to May 1998, and commercial service began in November 1998"[11]
1998 The first 3G networks are introduced.[8]
1998 Mobile payments are trialled in Finland and Sweden.[1] Finland, Sweden
1999 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) technical standard is made available for mobile devices.[8]
1999–2002 "Another LEO system, Globalstar, consisted of 48 satellites that were launched about the same time as the Iridium constellation. Globalstar began offering service in October 1999, though it too went into bankruptcy, in February 2002; a reorganized Globalstar LP continued to provide service thereafter."[11]
1999 The first mobile commercial payment system to mimic banks and credit cards is launched in the Philippines, simultaneously by mobile operators Globe Telecom and Smart Communications.[2]
2000 Network launch Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks evolve into General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) (2.5G) and become available.[6]
2000 (June) Product South Korean multinational conglomerate Samsung releases SCH-V200, which integrates digital camera and mobile phone, in a unit that can take up to 20 pictures at 640 x 480 (350,000 pixel CCD, 1 MB internal storage).[27] South Korea
2000 (November) Japanese multinational Sharp Corporation releases the J-SH04 mobile phone, the first ever phone with a built-in camera (110,000-pixel CMOS) and color display (256-color display).[28] Japan
2001 QWERTY[10]
2001 Network launch "The world’s first 3G service began in Japan in October 2001 with a system offered by NTT DoCoMo" The world's first commercial W-CDMA service, FOMA, is launched by NTT DoCoMo in Japan.[11] For the first time, mobile devices are fast enough to support online video and music streaming.[4]
2002 Product release The first smart phone is invented.[3][10]
2002 (June) Organization The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is formed as a standards body with aims at developing open standards for the mobile phone industry.
2002 Product release The Sanyo SCP–5300 is released. It allows users to view photos on a screen for the first time, instead of plugging it into a computer.[3][8]
2002 Research Finnish scientists claim that the electromagnetic radiation affect brain tissue.[1]
2003 Product release The Nokia 1100 is released. It would become the biggest–selling phone of all time.[8]
2004 Research German–led European laboratory study using mouse models announces that mobile radiation could cause genetic damage.[1]
2005 Product release The Casio GZ'One is released as the first waterproof phone.[8]
2005 Mobile operating system Android is acquired by Google. This step shows that Google is serious about developing mobile technology.[8] United States
2005 Policy The Cell Phone Recycle Act is passed in California.[3] United States
2005 Policy The Finnish government decides that the fastest way to warn citizens of disasters is the mobile phone network. Finland
2006 British researcher at the University of Staffordshire links mental wellbeing issues, such as stress, to mobile use.[1] United Kingdom
2006 (June) The world's first commercial mobile WiMAX service is opened by KT in Seoul. [29] South Korea
2007 Product Steve Jobs unveils the Apple Iphone, which is released. It has finger–input touchscreen, no keyboard, intuitive interface and apps[3][8][1]
2007 Policy Google opens Android operating system for free development and use, making its own services default for search, video and email.[8]
2007 Network launch The first 4G network is launched in South Korea.[8] South Korea
2007 Coverage 295 million 3G users are estimated around the world. This number accounts for 9% of the total worldwide number of mobile users.[4]
2008 "In 2008 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) set forward a list of requirements for what it called IMT-Advanced, or 4G; these requirements included data rates of 1 gigabit per second for a stationary user and 100 megabits per second for a moving user."[11]
2008 The whole Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) service is shut down across North America. This would be considered the end of an era.[4]
2008 The first 4G networks are introduced.
2008 HTC corporation releases the HTC Dream the first commercially released device to use the Linux-based Android operating system.[8]
2008 (july 10) The App Store (iOS) is launched, featuring 552 apps, 135 of which are free.[8]
2008 Microsoft deprecates windows mobile, saying that it can't compete with iPhone and Android. The development of Windows Phone begins.[8]
2009 (January) Product launch Whatsapp is launched.[8][30]
2009 Network launch Swedish telephone company TeliaSonera introduces the first 4G LTE network in Stockholm.[11] Sweden
2010 Samsung, Nokia, LG Electronics, ZTE Corporation and Apple Inc. altogether control more than 70% of the world mobile phone market.[17]
2010 The International Telecommunication Union decides that two technologies, LTE-Advanced (Long Term Evolution; LTE) and WirelessMan-Advanced (also called WiMAX), meet the requirements for a 4G. These requirements include data rates of 1 gigabit per second for a stationary user and 100 megabits per second for a moving user.[11]
2014 American corporation Facebook acquires Whatsapp for US$ 19 billion.[8] United States

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