THE WIERDER THE BETTER MOBILE PHONE

The next generation of mobile networks is now upon us – 4G is bringing speeds
so fast,and the history begins in this

1835
1) Samuel Morse made the first working electric telegraph to send and receive complex

 messages, and in 1844 he sent the fi rst message:“What hath God wrought?”
1973 2) Motorola engineer Dr Martin Cooper made the first handheld mobile

phone call to his invention rival Joel Engel at AT&T in 1973.

1985

3)First-generation (1G) mobile phones entered the market in the Eighties. They were large

and heavy devices with limited battery lives that could only make voice calls.

1992

4) The introduction of the 2G network allowed for text messaging and basic
internet access, and by 1999 76% of the UK owned a mobile phone.

2001

5) Japan launched the fi rst 3G network, bringing with it faster mobile internet,and

by 2007 there were a total of 200 million 3G users worldwide.