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Martin Cooper invented the 1st cell phone
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Cooper made the first call on a portable cell phone
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The FCC actually starts to encourage cell phone companies to push forward the “cellular idea”.
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The 100th cellular system is turned on in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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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.
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text messaging was first used
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caller i.d. was made
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50,000 cell sites across America
