cell phones were first released to the public for use on a commercial cellular network in 1949.
cell phones were first released to the public for use on a commercial cellular network in 1949.
when were cell phones first released to the public for use on a commercial cellular network?
1949
the first commercial cellular network, the 1g generation, was launched in japan by nippon telegraph and telephone (ntt) in 1979, initially in the metropolitan area of tokyo. within five years, the ntt network had been expanded to cover the whole population of japan and became the first nationwide 1g network.









































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to distinguish signals from several different transmitters, time-division multiple access (tdma), frequency-division multiple access (fdma), code-division multiple access (cdma), and orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (ofdma) were developed.
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the use of boeing's geomobile platform will allow for coverage of the entire united states with a single satellite. this new approach to satellite telephony has already been validated with the thuraya network. msv's satellite will use an even bigger antenna than the thuraya spacecraft (at 22 meters in diameter, it will be the largest commercial reflector dish ever used in space), allowing it to communicate with phones no larger than modern cell phones because the large antenna gain allows the handset to operate at a power output comparable to regular cell phones. this is now possible since the federal communications commission (fcc) allowed satellite operators to create terrestrial cellular networks using spectrum previously restricted to satellite use, which means that phones can be compatible with both the upcoming msv satellite phone network and local cellular networks, allowing a user to communicate over the regular cellular network, and only rely on the satellites in areas outside the range of cell towers. msv has earned patents for this set-up. it will be useful in sparsely populated areas where the construction of cell towers is not cost-effective, as well as to emergency-response services which must remain operational even when the local cellular network is out of service.
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