History of the Cell Phone

Like many modern technology, the cell phone is one of the gadget got facinating history. Competition between Bell Labs and Motorola fueled the race to create a prototype of the first celphone. Trough Bell Labs had achieved succes by installing radio systems into police cars, it is not credited with having won the race since the devices were too large to carry and consequently cannot be considered mobile telephones in a practical sense.

It was in the year 1973 that cell phones can be said to have been born when Martin Cooper, a scientist working for Motorola, walking trough the street of New York City made the first ever cellphone call to Joe Engel,head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs-his rival talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype.

No doubt, Martin Cooper was a visionary and it was the outcome of his vision that you see in everybody's. People want to talk to another people - not a house, or an office,or a car. Given a choicr, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973' Cooper said.

If we turn the pages of history we find that Chicago and Tokyo were the first cities in the world where cellphone came to be used and these were distributed to 2000 customers on trial basis. Or in other words, cell phones went public.

It was really in the eighties that the age of cell phone began but not without a struggle. The FCC in the United States which regulated and allocates radio bandwidth licensed 800 MHz frequency for cell phone usage. As the rush increased, there wqas a clamor for kore of the bandwidth space. FCC did not allocate extra bandwidth. This forced the cell phone companies to develope better technology which made optimal use of the available bandwidth and thus the era cell phone began.

In 1982, the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administration (CEPT) launced the advisory group that would eventually create the GSM standard for cellphone communications.