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Nathan B. Stubblefield was granted a US patent for the Wireless Telephone technology.
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Radio telephony was first used on the first-class passenger trains between Berlin and Hamburg, Europe
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The first radio receiver/transmitter, called Walkie Talkie (Motorola SCR-300) was created at Galvin Manufacturing Company (now Motorola).
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Radiophones were used in the Second World War for militay communication and civil services.
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Televerket, a Swedish company, launches a new automatic mobile system called MTB. It was desgined by Ragnar Berglund in Stockholm and Gothenburg.
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George Sweigert of Euclid was granted an US pantent for wireless phone using an acoustic coupler for incoming calls (but did not include dialing a number for outgoing calls.)
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Amos Edward Joel from (Bell Labs) was granted an US patent for Cellular Mobile Communication System.
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Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first analogue mobile phone call on a prototype model. He made the first handheld cellular phone call on April 3, 1973 to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs,
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Martin Cooper was granted an US patent for Radio Telephone System (Dyna-Tac).
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FCC approved the proposal for Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)
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Nokia, from Finland, launches the first portable car-telephone called the Nokia Talkman.
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Vodafone made the UK's first mobile call at a few minutes past midnight.
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Ericsson launches the firt Hotline telephone.
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number of mobile subscribers in the world crosses 10 million.
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First machine generated SMS message was sent in the UK
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First person-to-person SMS was sent in FInland.
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Yoshiyuki Ide (from NEC) was granted an US patent for Hands-free telephone set.
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Number of mobile subscribers in the world crosses 1 billion.
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James S. Kim, Kwangbok Lee, Kiho Kim and Changsoon Park were granted US patent for Mobile communication apparatue and method including base station and mobile statio having multi-antenna
