Timeline of mobile telephony
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This is a timeline of mobile telephony.
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1876 (March 10) | Antecedent | Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, makes the first phone call.[1] | United States |
1921 | "The first car-to-car radios are used " "The Detroit Police Department began using mobile radios in their police cars. They used them to talk between cars, but it didn't work very well."[2] | ||
1960 | The first fully automated mobile telephone is 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.[3][3] | Sweden | |
1962 | Mobiltelefonisystem A (MTA) is replaced by Mobiltelefonisystem B (MTB), which uses transistorized mobile sets. This system would last until 1983.[3] | Sweden | |
1971 | "The term "cell" comes into play" "AT & T proposed splitting phone service into different areas across the cities. These areas were called "cells"."[2] | ||
1973 | The first mobile call is made by a Motorola employee. The phone weighs over a kilo and takes 10 hours to charge.[1] | ||
1979 | 1G, the first generation of wireless telephone technology, is launched in Japan by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). It is the first commercially automated cellular network.[1] "initially in the metropolitan area of Tokyo. Within five years, the NTT network had been expanded to cover the whole population of Japan and became the first nationwide 1G network." | Japan | |
1981 | "In 1981, the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system simultaneously launched in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. NMT was the first mobile phone network to feature international roaming."[1] | ||
1983 | "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.[1] | 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.[4] | ||
1985 | The first mobile call in the United Kingdom is made.[1] | United Kingdom | |
1989 | Mobile release | 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.[5][1] | |
1991 | "Second-generation 2G cellular telecom networks were commercially launched on the GSM standard in Finland by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991."[6]" | Finland | |
1992 | The first text message is sent.[1] | ||
1998 | The first 3G networks are introduced. | ||
2001 | The world's first commercial W-CDMA service, FOMA, is launched by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. | ||
2002 | The first smart phone is invented.[2] | ||
2002 | Sanyo made a phone that could snap pictures.[2] | ||
2005 | The Cell Phone Recycle Act is passed in California.[2] | ||
2007 | The Apple Iphone is released.[2] | ||
2008 | The first 4G networks are introduced. |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "1876 to 2015 – the History of the Mobile Phone". mcs-testequipment.com. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "cell phone Timeline". softschools.com. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "A Brief History Of Mobile Phones". makeuseof.com. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ↑ Nordsveen, Arve M (28 November 2005). "Mobiltelefonens historie i Norge" (in Norwegian). Norsk Telemuseum. Archived from the original on 13 February 2007.
- ↑ Motorola Has a Pocket-Size Cellular Phone Los Angeles, April 26, 1989
- ↑ "Radiolinja's History". 20 April 2004. Archived from the original on 23 October 2006. Retrieved 23 December 2009.