A Look Back At The Extremely Very first Cell Cell phone Sold In the United States
When the very first cell phones were manufactured, they were large in size and rather bulky. They have been also weighty and caused problems when people carried them around with them. Today, even refurbished or used cell phones can fit in your pocket and hardly weigh more than a few ounces.
The very first cell telephone was sold on the market in the United States in 1983.
Motorola had the honors of doing this. It was a DynaTac model that weighed a pound and costing consumers about $3,500. The next year, Motorola introduced one more DynaTac version, the 8000X and also the cost was $3,995.
In the early 1990s, a million subscribers would start using the cell cell phone inside the United States. In 1991, Motorola introduced a third cell phone model, the MicroTac Lite and the price tag for that was $1,000.
Even though AT&T and Bell Labs had created a cell phone prior to Motorola’s phone’s coming out, it would be years before they could begin putting theirs on the market. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) took forever to grant the license that they needed to move forward.
If it hadn’t been for the feds dragging their feet on the issue, AT&T would have shut out Motorola as having the very very first cell cell phone to be sold in the United States. However, that was not to be. At the time the commercial analog service came out, the phone company in Chicago had changed its name to Ameritech from the previous Illinois Bell Cell phone Company.
Altogether, it took almost 40 years for the Federal Government to make cell phones commercially available in the United States. Since there was a lot of consumer demand, they had no choice but to up the ante.
By the year 1987, cell telephone customers had exceeded one million. Back then, the space for cell phone usage was getting tight and crowded. It was time to implement some changes. The allocation for frequencies was increased, the cells that existed had been split and also the technology had improved.
The FCC also made some changes. They have been not willing to provide additional bandwidth and they did not want to pay for additional splitting cells nor did they want to build any more. Inside the same year (1987), the Federal Government decided that other technologies of cell phones could be used. Today, even used cell phones have come a long way since The Brick.
The cell telephone industry found new ways of embracing technology. This concept is still going on today and has evolved into a money making industry comprised of millions of phones, including older used cell phones that have been recycled back into the market.