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  2. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network. While the transmission of speech by signal has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, mobile, and also capable of connecting to the standard telephone network are much more recent.

  3. Mobile telephony - Wikipedia

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    Mobile phone subscriptions, not subscribers, per 100 inhabitants 1997-2007. Mobile phones receive and send radio signals with any number of cell site base stations fitted with microwave antennas. These sites are usually mounted on a tower, pole or building, located throughout populated areas, then connected to a cabled communication network and ...

  4. History of telecommunication - Wikipedia

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    The development of transistor technology and the semiconductor industry enabled significant advances in telecommunication technology, led to the price of telecommunications services declining significantly, and led to a transition away from state-owned narrowband circuit-switched networks to private broadband packet-switched networks.

  5. Mobile technology - Wikipedia

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    Mobile technology gave human society great change. The use of mobile technology in government departments can also be traced back to World War I. In recent years, the integration of mobile communication technology and information technology has made mobile technology the focus of industry attention.

  6. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    11 February 1876: Elisha Gray invents a liquid transmitter for use with a telephone, but he did not make one. 14 February 1876 about 9:30 am: Gray or his lawyer brings Gray's patent caveat for the telephone to the Washington, D.C. Patent Office (a caveat was a notice of intention to file a patent application.

  7. Mobile phone - Wikipedia

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    Two decades of evolution of mobile phones, from a 1992 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the 2014 iPhone 6 Plus. A mobile phone, or cell phone, [a] is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones (landline phones).

  8. The environmental impact of smartphones—and what the ... - AOL

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    Although mobile phone technology has constantly been evolving since its invention, cellphones were not always something people replaced on a yearly or biyearly basis. The introduction of the ...

  9. Category:History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "History of mobile phones" The following 4 pages are in this category, out ...