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Bell System introduces the touch tone phone. This telephone made a different beep for each number instead of counted clicks for each number.
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The electronic telephone switching system is placed into service. Calls are switched faster than before.
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The first commercial communications satilite
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K.C. Kao and G.A. Hockham publish the principles of fiber optic communications. This cable uses glass to send a light beam that carries thousands of calls
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The microprocessor would make telephones and switching systems smaller, lighter and faster to use.
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Motorola demonstrates the cellular telephone to the FCC. People could call each other without wires.
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The Internet would use the telephone lines in the future to transmit information through a personal computer.
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AT&T agrees to breakup its Bell System telephone companies
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A printed sheet of paper can be sent across telephone lines and received whole on the other end.
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Pocket" cellular telephone is introduced by Motorola.
