-
The Transcontinental Aerial Telephone and Power company claimed to have made a wireless telephone but were accused of fraud.
-
German railroad systems tested wireless phone technology on military trains between Berlin and Zossen
-
Karl Arnold did a cartoon predicting the use of mobile phones on the streets.
-
The Second World War made use of wireless radio transceivers for military purposes
-
Work began to allow people to use telephones in cars and in 1946, AT&T introduced the Mobile Telephone Service
-
In the USSR, Leonid Kupriyanovich, an engineer from Moscow, in 1961 presented a number of experimental models of handheld mobile phones
-
The first prototype for a handheld mobile phone had only 30 minutes of talk time and took 10 hours to recharge.
-
In 1977, a cellular data signaling system was described in Hachenburg.
-
By the end of 2007, over 295 million people were subscribed to 3G networks
