History of Cell Phones

Cell phones gained popularity just in last decade, but they have actually been around for a lot longer than most people think. Since the 1970’s, wireless cell phones have been on the market, but no one with the exception of big businesses and the government actually used them. They looked like large pieces of equipment that wouldn’t fit into pockets and purses alike, so there really wasn’t a point to carrying one. On top of that, there weren’t any cellular phone accessories at all for the consumer to make their phone their own. But that picture has changed into a much larger one.

When the nineties hit, cell phones became a major player in the communications field. People were starting to use them in the main stream population and wireless companies like AT&T were pushing to make wireless phones better and better. The cell phone is based on digital signals instead of the analog signals that were once dominating the communications market. Digital technology has made the wireless conversation a lot more like the wired phone calls that we use at home. It cuts up the waves of sound and sends them in bursts of data to make a clearer sound.

Plans became more and more family friendly and packages were aimed at the regular consumer rather than busy businessmen. Through advertising and improving the technology and reliability of cell phones, the industry has changed drastically. It started out as a three million dollar market and has exponentially grown to a thirty billion dollar market. Now, there are so many cell phone companies and so many choices for phones and phone plans that they make the average consumer’s head spin. Cheaper and better phones, along with their cheap cell phone accessories have flooded the malls and electronic stores within the last ten years. You can now buy anything for your cell phone, from the practical carrying case, to flashing lights on the antenna, all the way to downloading music and hooking it up to speakers.