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History of Cellular Phones The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947 when researchers looked at crude mobile (car) phones and realized that by using small cells (range of service area) with frequency reuse could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones substantially, however, the technology to do it was nonexistent. Anything to do with broadcasting and sending a radio or television message out over the airwaves comes under a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation that a cellular phone is actually a type of two-way radio. In 1947, ATT proposed that the FCC allocate a large number of radio spectrum frequencies so that wide-spread mobile phone service could become feasible and ATT would have a incentive to research the new technology. We can partially blame the FCC for the gap between the concept of cellular phone service and its availability to the public. Because of the FCC decision to limit the cellular phone frequencies in 1947, only twenty three cellular phone conversations could occur simultaneously in the same service area - not a market incentive for research.? The FCC reconsidered its position in 1968, and stated if the technology to build a better mobile phone service works, we will increase the cellular phone frequencies allocation, freeing the airwaves for more mobile phones. ATT - Bell Labs proposed a cellular phone system to the FCC of many small, low-powered broadcast towers, each covering a cell a few miles in radius, collectively covering a larger area. Each tower would use only a few of the total frequencies allocated to the cellular phone system, and as cars moved across the area their cellular phone calls would be passed from tower to tower.? Individual Inventors Mobile Phone Patents Dr. Martin Cooper for Motorola. U09/16/1975 Radio telephone system Martin Cooper, Richard W. Dronsuth, ; Albert J. Mikulski, Charles N. Lynk Jr., James J. Mikulski, John F. Mitchell, Roy A. Richardson, John H. Sangster Related Cla