Friday, June 21, 2013

forty Years of Mobile Telephone Calls: The Mobile Phone Reaches a Historic Date

This week saw the 40th anniversary of the 1st ever mobile phone telephone call.


On Wednesday 5th April 1973, in New York City, Motorola employee Martin Cooper created a call on the DynaTAC, a 9-Inch prototype telephone that he had made.


The DynaTAC took a monstrous ten hours to totally charge, however it had a talk time of merely thirty five minutes.


Cooper’s phone call was placed to a rival AT&T employee; he informed his rival that he was speaking from the world’s first mobile phone. He’s then reported to have told the man, “I’m ringing you just to check if my telephone call sounds good at your end.”


At the same time as this call is taken into account to be the first true cellular telephone phone call, the historic moment was a very long time in the making. AT&T had confirmed an basic car-radio-phone way back to 1947, however it only worked across the highway between New York and Boston.


In 1956, the very first car phones were produced. It had been these mobile phones that stimulated Cooper to create the DynaTAC.


In 1970, a bunch of lobbyists effectively convinced America’s FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to allow for the need of cellular phones.


The DynaTAC was described by Motorola as being, “a handheld, wholly portable handset which will permit its user to receive phone calls from practically anywhere in the metro area equipped with the new DynaTAC system.”
During the 1980’s and early 1990’s, cellphones were principally used in the commercial world and were seen as the symbol of status and accomplishment.


Through the late 90’s to the early 2000’s cell phones proliferated as both a convenient everyday tool and a life-style accessory.


Today, the Telecoms Industry routinely brings in yearly quantities of as much as £800bn.


Martin Cooper subsequently occupied several high-profile roles at Motorola, ultimately serving as its Vice-President. He was also one of the individuals most to blame for increasing the variety of pagers from just an individual building to across numerous metropolitan ranges.


Cooper has won numerous engineering awards and is a regular commentator in a variety of science and technology publications. The 84 year old is reported to be less than encouraged with today’s Smartphones, but still operates them to be able to follow existing marketplace trends.


During a 2010 interview with BBC News, Mr. Cooper said, “The future of cellular telephony is to make people’s lives better – a very powerful way, in my opinion, is going to be the opportunity to develop healthcare,”


 


Sources:


 


http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/03/mobile-phone-40th-anniversary


 


http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall04/keith/history1.htm


 


http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/mobile-phone-call-motorola-cooper-111990


 


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8639590.stm


 


http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/mobile-phone-call-motorola-cooper-111990



forty Years of Mobile Telephone Calls: The Mobile Phone Reaches a Historic Date

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