This is a little story about the evolution of Telecommunications

From…

1870 When Alexander Graham Bell patented a device that could transmit speech electrically… aka the telephone

To this…

One million IPhones sold in a three day period!

1874- Bell, along with Thomas Watson began working on the harmonic telegraph.

1876- Speaking through his instrument, Bell said to his assistant the famous words “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.

Let’s go back to the beginning~

Video of first phone transmission(not exactly high quality)

The rest is history…..but I still need you to read on!

As time went on so did the distance of the calls

9 October 1876 Bell makes world's first two-way long distance telephone call between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, USA

4 February 1878 Thomas Edison demonstrates telephone between Menlo Park, New York and Philadelphia, a distance of 210 km.

This was just the beginning!!

1885 American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT &T) is formed

1919 AT&T installs the first dial telephones in the Bell System, in Norfolk, Virginia. The last manual telephones in the system were not converted to dial until 1978 when the last of the first bell phones were no longer made.

25 January 1915 First transcontinental telephone call, with Thomas Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco receiving the call from Alexander Graham Bell at 15 Day Street in New York City.[1

1919 AT&T installs the first dial telephones in the Bell System, in Norfolk, Virginia. The last manual telephones in the system were not converted to dial until 1978 when the last of the first bell phones were no longer made.

1935 First telephone call around the world

1946 First commercial mobile phone call

1958 Modems used for direct connection via voice phone lines

1971 AT&T submitted a proposal for cellular phone service to the FCC.

It was just a matter of time

1977 - Experimental cellular systems launched in Chicago and the Washington, D.C./Baltimore region.On October 13, 1983 - The first commercial cellular system begins operating in Chicago

1982 Caller ID patented by , Bell Labs

1983 Last manual telephone switchboard in Maine is retired

1987 ADSL introduced

1992 – World’s first commercial text message sent by employees of Logica CMG

1998 - The average consumer used his or her phone for 122 minutes per month.

2000 - Wireless subscribership in America exceeds 100 million.

2000- Camera phones introduced in Japanese market.

2001 - The average wireless consumer uses his or her phone for 320 minutes per month.

2002 - FCC awards 90 MHz of additional spectrum for advanced wireless services.- Delivery of digital wireless data and voice enhanced networks (2.5G)

Cell phones were taking off in popularity in the 21st century

2005 Mink, Louisiana gets phone service (Last in the USA)

Today Wireless Serves America and the rest of the world

- Over 162 million Americans are wireless subscribers.- Over $118 billion in capital investment, growing by $20 billion a year.

- 200,000 times each day, someone uses a wirless phone to call for help.