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In 2001, roughly 45 percent of the US population had a cell phone. Ownership had doubled in the previous four years and quadrupled over the prior six. On September 11 of that year, terrorists hijacked airplanes and launched attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. On at least one of the hijacked planes, passengers used cell phones to communicate with family members on the ground. In many locations, however, cell sites had not yet been installed or existing sites didn’t have the capacity to carry the sudden increase in cellular telephone calls. Many first responders and government officials could not be reached, even on the wired network. On that awful day, radio pagers—what many called beepers—were a principal means of how information about the attacks spread. Even though there were three times as many cell phones as pagers, pagers were still widely used for contacting and alerting people, including at the highest levels of the US government. Among White House staff traveling with President George W. Bush, “every- one’s pager started going off” as word spread of the attacks. There were no phones on Air Force One, which carried the president around the country as they tried to figure out what action to take. The White House press secretary had a two-way pager, not a cell phone, that could send and receive only a few predetermined responses. The presidential entourage was only able to get updates on the attacks by picking up local television signals as the plane fl...

Introduction Surely you have said this! In fact, how many times would you have said it? Have you tried doing that with a telephone? A phone connected to a solid copper wire. Do you have a landline at home? Wouldn’t it look ridiculous to have a tangible tail of wire following you everywhere you go? What a mess it would be if everyone had this copper tail. Either no one would go around with it or a chaos of wires would havoc the streets. Its sheer madness! But wait, why am I talking about this? I can hear 20 th century yelling “ MO….B...I……L….E………….. P…H….O…N….EEEEE!!!!!” Yes, I have heard of mobile phones. I have one myself. Kids in sixth-seventh grade are using cell phones these days. Well it’s not a big deal, but way back in 1970s… it was! Till then, no one knew what mobile phones were, as there weren’t any. The only way you could talk on a phone was through a landline or a car radio. Heck! Even the landlines were wired, not cordless. You probably wouldn’t even know what ‘car radios’ are... it’s one of those things that were out dated by cell phones. Due to cell phones a lot of things have changed over the years. So many lives are saved daily as help is just a call away. Many crimes are stopped and even avoided by simply a concern call. Because of mobile phones we can be rest assured if our loved ones are safe, even if they are miles away. We can instantly change our plans and notify those concerned. We can navigate our friends in need. Calls to foreign locations are made...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Martin Cooper remembers exactly where he was standing when he made the first ever call from a cellphone on this day 50 years ago. MARTIN COOPER: I was on the streets of New York, 6th Avenue, right next to the Hilton Hotel. KELLY: At the time, Cooper was head of the communications division at Motorola, and he was there to demonstrate his company's latest invention. COOPER: New Yorkers were passing by. You know how blase they normally are, but they were startled because there were no cordless phones at that time. ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST: Up until that point, the only portable phones that existed - for the general public, at least - were in people's cars. And Cooper says Motorola's competitor, Bell Labs, saw car phones as the future. And he worried that car phones would become the standard for mobile communication. You see; he saw things differently. COOPER: The cellphone ought to be the extension of a person, and it ought to be with the person all the time. KELLY: So in 1972, he set out to create a mobile phone that could fit in your pocket. By the next year, his team had the first working cellphone system. FLORIDO: It was a feat of engineering, even if it couldn't quite fit into a standard pocket. COOPER: It ended up weighing 2 1/2 pounds. It was about 10 inches high, inch and a half wide, 3 inches deep. It was like a brick. KELLY: On April 3, 1973, standing on those streets in Manhattan, Cooper made a phone call that would change the world. He pulled ...

Martin Cooper helped invent one of the most consequential and successful products in history: the cell phone. And almost five decades after he made the first public cell phone call, on a 2-pound brick of a device called the DynaTAC, he's written a book about his career called " Cooper came on the Source Code Podcast to talk about his time at Motorola, the process of designing the first-ever cell phone, whether today's tech giants are monopolies and why he's bullish on the future of AI. The following excerpts from our conversation have been edited for length and clarity. I want to get to the phones, but before we do I want to talk about pagers, because I have this deep obsession with pagers. I think pagers are a much better example of the direct predecessor to the cell phone than landlines. Even though you couldn't make phone calls, it seems like spiritually, pagers were cell phones before they were cell phones. You made pagers, and they were huge. And I guess my big question is, why didn't pagers get their due? We kind of skip over them, but it feels like they were a big thing. Well they were, at the time we did it. In the U.S. there were, at the peak, over 50 million pagers. And the principle is freedom. Our biggest customers were people like doctors, who were trapped next to their patients because they have to be available. And the pager set them free! They could go play a game of golf and know that they could get a beep and be at the hospital at 10 minutes. So the conce...

This section of a needs additional Please help by adding must be removed immediately, especially if potentially Find sources: · · · · ( March 2017) ( Motorola Cooper left his first job at By the early 1970s, Cooper headed Motorola's communications systems division. Top management at Motorola supported Cooper's mobile phone concept, investing $100 million between 1973 and 1993 before any revenues were realized. Cooper is the lead inventor named on "radio telephone system" filed on October 17, 1973, with the On April 3, 1973, Cooper and Mitchell demonstrated two working phones to the media and to passers-by prior to walking into a scheduled press conference at the New York City Hilton in midtown Manhattan. Standing on Sixth avenue near the That first cell phone began a fundamental technology and communications market shift to making Cooper worked at Motorola for 29 years; building and managing both its paging and cellular businesses. He also led the creation of trunked mobile radio, Cooper rose to Vice-President and Corporate Director of Research and Development at Motorola. Cellular Business Systems Dyna LLC Cooper and his wife Arlene Harris founded Dyna LLC in 1986 as a home base for their developmental and support activities for the new companies, Subscriber Computing Inc., From his Dyna headquarters Cooper continues to write and lecture about wireless communications, technological innovation, the Internet and R&D management. He serves on industry, civic and national gove...

Martin Cooper with the fruits of his labor. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images Shockingly, Drake was not the first to make that hotline bling. Back in the '70s, telecommunications were the new frontier for tech companies. This is how one executive made the call that cellphones would change human life forever. Who is he? Martin Cooper — aka the father of the cellphone, and former head of Motorola's communications systems division — and the first person to ever make a call from a cellphone. What's the big deal? In some abstract way, we can probably connect that fateful call of yesteryear with our crippling phone addictions of today. • Cooper had a vision for communication, and pushed for the cellphone while competitors placed their bets elsewhere. • In fact, the push for a mobile phone was one bred from urgency. At the time, Motorola's competitor, Bell Labs, was focusing its efforts on the car phone. That concept didn't fly with Cooper. • He felt that "a cellphone ought to be an extension of a person, it ought to be with a person all the time." • So in 1972, he set out to create a mobile phone that could fit in your pocket. While the whole pocket thing was subjective (they called them brick phones for a reason!) by the next year, they had a functioning cellphone system. • On April 3, 1973, Cooper made the first call of many, and dialed up his counterpart at Motorola's competitor, Bell Labs. (Messy!) A contemporary copy of the original cellphone that engineer Martin Cooper us...

Martin "Marty" Cooper is an American pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry. With eleven patents in the field, he is recognized as an innovator in radio spectrum management. While at Motorola in the 1970s, Cooper conceived the first handheld mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983.He is considered the "father of the cell phone" and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public. Cooper is co-founder of numerous successful communications companies with his wife and business partner Arlene Harris; also known as the "first lady of wireless."He is currently co-founder and Chairman of Dyna LLC, in Del Mar, California. Cooper also sits on committees supporting the Federal Communications Commission and the United States Department of Commerce. Cooper graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1950. After graduating he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserves where he served as a submarine officer during the Korean War.In 1957 Cooper went on to earn his Master's degree from IIT in electrical engineering and in 2004 IIT awarded Cooper an honorary doctorate degree. He serves on the University's Board of Trustees. Career Motorola Cooper left his first job at Teletype Corporation in Chicago in 1954 and joined Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, Illinois) as a senior development engineer in the mobile equipment group. He developed many pr...

Inventors and Inventions Mobile telephones had been introduced by the In 1947 AT&T Motorola did not want AT&T to have a monopoly on cell phones and feared the end of its mobile business. Cooper was placed in charge of the urgent project to develop a cell phone. He thought that the cell phone should not be chained to the car but should be portable. The result, the On April 3, 1973, Cooper introduced the DynaTAC phone at a press conference in In 1983, after years of further development, Motorola introduced the first portable cell phone for consumers, the DynaTAC 8000x. Despite its price of $3,995, the phone was a success. That same year, Cooper left Motorola and founded Cellular Business Systems, Inc. (CBSI), which became the leading company in billing cellular phone services. In 1986 he and his partners sold CBSI to Cincinnati Bell for $23 million, and he and his wife, Arlene Harris, founded Dyna, LLC. Dyna served as a central organization from which they launched other companies, such as ArrayComm (1996), which developed