History of Wireless Communications
From Building the Wireless Future® to Expanding the Wireless Frontier™
1965
- AT&T’s Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS) eliminated the need for push-to-talk operation and offered automatic dialing.
1968
- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened Docket 18262 to address questions regarding spectrum reallocation.
1972
- Bell Labs receives a patent for its Mobile Communications System, which describes and enables handoffs between cells.
1977
- Experimental cellular systems launched in Chicago and the Washington, D.C./Baltimore region.
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