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Welcome to the most up to date and resourceful mobile/cellular phone messaging information site on the internet! We've got overviews and technical information on how SMS, MMS and mobile email works.
So you understand how mobile/cellular phone technology arrived where it's at today, here's a brief timeline of events leading us to where we are now:
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call
1906 - Guglielmo Marconi makes first voice transmission using radio waves
1912 - First commercial telephone calls made in UK
1921 - First car-mobile radio used by Detroit police department
1925 - Wireless telegraphy used on ships, aircraft and in police cars
1946 - Radiotelephones introduced in USA
1947 - Bell Labs developed cellular technology basis for modern mobile phone networks
1956 - First car phone released in Stockholm. The size of a suitcase and weighing 40kg, it ran off a car battery.
1979 - First cellular phone system deployed in Japan
1983 - UK gets analogue TACS system
1985 - Phones with 20kg batteries introduced
1991 - European Community unifies digital networks with GSM
1994 - SMS text messaging launched
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