Marty Cooper - The Father of the Cell Phone

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Marty Cooper - The Cell Phone has Transformed Humanity - Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur 

Martin Cooper, inventor of the cell phone and technology visionary joins Your Partner In Success™ Radio to share how the cell phone has transformed humanity. While at Motorola in the 1970s, he invented the first handheld cellular 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 (handheld) cell phone” and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public. Who did he call and why? I will ask him!

That first cell phone began a fundamental technology and communications market shift to making phone calls to a person instead of to a place. Bell Labs had introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947, but their first systems were limited to car phones which required roughly 30 pounds (12 kg) of equipment in the trunk. Motorola gained Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for cellular licenses to be assigned to competing entities and prevented an AT&T monopoly on cellular service.

People are Inherently Mobile 

Mobility was halted briefly during widespread stay at home orders this year. But people won’t stay immobile for long. Why? Because people are fundamentally, inherently mobile. Mobile people require mobile networks for their devices. People are mobile. People of all types – any race, age, income level, geographic location – are on the go, moving from place to place. 

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