cell phone

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
04/16/1973	1st cell phone	Martin Cooper invented the 1st cell phone
04/21/1973	1st call on a cell phone	Cooper made the first call on a portable cell phone
09/22/1974	FCC encourages cell phone companies	The FCC actually starts to encourage cell phone companies to push forward the “cellular idea”.
11/21/1985	100th cell phone	The 100th cellular system is turned on in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
11/22/1988	cell phone technology industry	One of the most important years in cell phone evolution. The Cellular Technology Industry Association is created and helps to make the industry into an empire. One of its biggest contributions is when it helped create TDMA phone technology, the most evolved cell phone yet. It becomes available to the public in 1991.
12/05/1992	1st text message	text messaging was first used
11/21/1995	caller i.d.	caller i.d. was made
11/21/1997	cell sites	50,000 cell sites across America