Cell Phone timeline

  • Radio Interference

    1921 The Police Department in Detroit, Mich. begins installing mobile radios, operating around 2 MHz, in their squad cars. They encounter many problems such as overcrowding on the channels and terrible interference.
  • FCC developed

    1934 The U.S. Congress creates the Federal Communications Commission. They decide who gets to use certain radio frequencies. Most channels are reserved for emergency use and for the government. Radio is still a baby.
  • Radio's Are popuar

    1940’s By now, the mobile radios are able to operate at 30 to 40 MHz and become much more common between police departments, and the wealthy. Several private companies and organizations begin using these same radios for personal gain.
  • First mobile radio

    The first mobile-radio-telephone service is established in St. Louis, Miss. The system is comprised of six channels that add up to 150 MHz. The project is approved by the FCC, but due to massive interference, the equipment barely works.
  • At&T Starts making phone plans

    AT&T adapts its own cellular plan for the city of Chicago, but the FCC is still uneasy about putting the plan into action. They have concerns about its success.
  • Phone use approved in CHicago

    1977 Finally cell phone testing is permitted by the FCC in Chicago. The Bell Telephone Company gets the license; they are in a partnership with AT&T which is a gerneral effort to battle the stubborn FCC.
  • Important year in cell phone history

    1988 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.
  • iPhone 4

    A new and faster iPhone is released that runs on 4G network and soon becomes very common and popular
  • Seri!

    iPhone 4S is introduced along with its parner Seri, the robot personal response system to help any and almost all needs of a person
  • New TEch!

    Phones will be seee through touch screen objects that are very thin and easily stored in pockets, walets and even a glasses case.
  • Earring Phone

    Phones will be able to be attached to you and accessible at all times with a new earring that also has a phone function and is completely voice activated. You would jsut enter the data and it owuld do the rest
  • Small Phones

    Phones will have gotten smaller and smaller and now could be attached to any part of your clothing or maybe even person. They will be extremely fast, helpful and addictive.