There is a substantial history regarding the modern wireless or “cellular” telephone. Wireless phones date back to just after World War II with Mobile Telephone System (MTS) and have progressed to a Fifth Generation (5G) wireless cellular telephone technology. The following are pages that describe wireless telephone technology from yesteryear to present day.
Cellular Phone History
Pre-Cellular (MTS & IMTS) (0G)
Mobile phones before cellular phones
We had to start somewhere. A hybrid analog/digital cellular phone system
The First Digital Cellular Systems – TDMA, GSM and iDEN (2G)
Moving away from analog to first generation digital phone systems
Modern Wireless Systems (3G – 4G – 5G)
The modern era of wireless phones, where data is king