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modular telephone cords and jacks introduced
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Amos E. Joel, Jr. of Bell Labs invented the "call handoff" system for "cellular mobile communication system"
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AT&T submitted a proposal for cellular phone service to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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Motorola employee Martin Cooper placed the first hand-held cell phone call to Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs, while talking on the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype.
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Kazuo Hashimoto invented Caller ID
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Bell Labs launched a trial of the first commercial cellular network in Chicago using Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS).
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World's first NMT phone call in Tampere, Finland.[28]
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VoIP - NVP running on top of early versions of IP
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The world's first fully automatic mobile phone system NMT is started in Sweden and Norway.
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BT introduces the British Telephone Sockets system.