Moblie Phone Technology and The Social Impact Thereof

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INTRODUCTION Mobile phone technology is a technology that a vast majority of us would be familiar with, allowing one to call from almost anywhere, anytime as long as they connected a network. Mobile phones revolutionised the world of personal communication, because of this it is important that the impacts that the technology has had on the community. This essay will trace, in brief, the history of mobile phone technology along with an examination of the social impacts that this technology has had. HISTORY OF MOBILE PHONES While mobile phones are easy to obtain today, it was decades after the technology was discovered, that they became available on the public market. “The History of Cell Phones” (2011) claims that mobile phone technology can be traced back to its earliest form in two way radio technology developed from the 1940’s onwards. However, the first authentic mobile phone was used by Swedish polish in 1946. In 1947 D.H. Ring from Blue Labs designed hexagonal cells and started modern mobile phone technology (Para. 1-3). Although mobile technology was available, if limited, by 1967, mobile towers had limited rang and lack the ability to hand off calls to one another; callers were limited to ‘call areas’. The ‘Call hand off system’ was created in 1970 by Amos Edward Joel, an engineer with Bell Labs. In 1971 an appeal for mobile service was put forward to the FCC by AT&T, although it took over ten years for the appeal to be accepted (The history of Cell Phones, 2011, Para. 4-5) The progress of mobile phone technology can be described using three main generations. The first generation of mobile phones or 1G, refer to the very first mobile phones available on the open market. In 1983 Motorola released the first ... ... middle of paper ... ...com/what-are-1st-2nd-and-3rd-generation-mobile-phones Powell. E. (2001). Cell phone etiquette. ProQuest. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.une.edu.au/docview/216434180 Road Safety: Mobile phone use. (n.d.). Government of South Australia: Department of Planning and Infrastructure. Retrieved from http://www.dtei.sa.gov.au/roadsafety/Safer_behaviours/inattention/mobile_phone_use Study: Walking While Talking on Cell Phones Hazardous for Children. (2009). Fox News.com. Retrieved from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,483471,00.html The History of Cell Phones. (2011). Tech-FAQ. Retrieved from http://www.tech-faq.com/history-of-cell-phones.html The Social Impact of Mobile Telephony. (n.d.). Telecom. Retrieved from http://www.itu.int/telecom-wt99/press_service/information_for_the_press/press_kit/backgrounders/backgrounders/social_impact_mobile.html#

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