How Gsm And Cdma Cell Phones Began

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GSM and CDMA Cell phones are an crucial part of everyday life now, but they were very exciting upon their debut. The initial ones made were very large and bulky, clunky and quite heavy - and still, the folks who could afford them eagerly waited for the chance to buy one.

The first cell phone authorized for sale inside the United States was the Motorola Dynatac, granted a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license in 1983. The Dynatac weighed a pound and price consumers roughly three and a half thousand dollars - and that's 1980s bucks, bear in mind, a time when a dollar bought a lot a lot more than today!

The very next year, nevertheless, Motorola introduced another Dynatec model, the 8000X, which cost even a lot more, at just under four thousand bucks. Costs would remain high until further advances in technology allowed for the kind of miniaturization that we are familiar with today. It would be one more decade or so until the early 1990s when the million-subscriber milestone will be reached. With such an installed user-base, economies of scale could be brought to bear and costs brought down for much more and a lot more people to enjoy the benefits of telephony on the go. In 1991, Motorola released their Microtac Lite for "only" a thousand bucks.

Interestingly, AT&T and its famous Bell Labs department also had cell phones inside the works, but they were not initial to market with any. This was surprising because AT&T was a telephone behemoth, and at one time had a virtual monopoly on all phone service within the United States. Its Bell Labs was responsible for many technological breakthroughs; the inventors of the silicon transistor were originally Bell Labs employees and had developed many of the principles of the modern microchip there.

Apparently, the FCC was slow to grant AT&T its license, which was a necessary step since cell phones are really just little radio transmitters and receivers and the FCC governs all such communications in the country. This delay seemed to have been in some part due to the then-ongoing breakup of "Ma Bell," the original AT&T leviathan that the government busted up in order to bring some competition to telephone services after around a century of monopoly.

By the initial years of the 21st Century, nevertheless, AT&T would become a company that only provided services, and not the hardware as well. And one of the manufacturers providing cell phones for its wireless network will be Motorola, with its wildly popular Razr lineup.

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