Technology Innovation in Mobile Telephony

“Today we are Mobile”. So Simple and so(Frequency Modulation) came to the picture. Till the end
Smart phrase. People who are not having even aof World War II , the technical development in the field
savings account in a bank or even a credit card, oneof radio and other wireless technologies were done by
can find a mobile handset with them. World has seenGovernment bodies , in different countries. But the birth
so many innovations both Technical and Business, butof “cellular” concept came just after the
if we club these two together I’m sure it will be ainnovation of “Integrated Circuits”.
real hard job to find out a faster and smarterB. The 1G Era: Analog Cellular: Based on Analog
innovative example beyond the word calledTransmission ; launched in early ‘80s, the 1G
“Mobility”. It’s just awesome. This specificnetworks were for voice communication. The basic
segment has shown tremendous growth in bothconcepts came from two key standards, (i) the Nordic
Technology and Marketing innovation and in this smallNMT and, (ii) the US AMPS. In late ‘80s, when 1G
article I’m trying to inscribe the most importanttook its own pace, different standards started getting
Technology Innovations in a chronological way.popularity in different regions, for example, NTT’s
A. Pre-Cellular Era: In 1895, Marconi transmittedproprietary standard in Japan, US AMPS in North
wireless signals and it gave birth of radio. Till the end ofAmerica, the British Standard (a derivative of US
World War I, wireless innovation took place in AMStandard) in Western Europe and NMT standards in
(Amplitude Modulation) technology. Then FMScandinavian countries.