One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the extreme mobility of the population. Whether for business or pleasure, people tend to move about and this led to the necessity of developing technology that would allow them to carry their communications with them.
The first step on the road to mobile communications came into being with the old “pager” machines that used the emerging microwave radio technology to alert a user that they had received a phone call and gave them a number to call back when they reached a landline phone.
While this helped speed up the rate of business a bit, it was just a small step toward what was really needed - full wireless telephone access. As satellite access became more widespread, the technology to transmit digital data streams brought forth the first true wireless cellular telephones.

Using low power radio transmission a growing network of receiver stations allowed increased range for these battery operated phones to connect to landline systems and deliver an actual spoken message to the receiver wherever they happened to be at.
The early 1980’s saw the first regional cell phone networks being deployed in urban areas. This system allowed a person’s phone […]

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