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2. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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   A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same building or within some short distance from the base station. A cordless telephone differs functionally from a mobile telephone in ...

3. Best Buy - Wikipedia

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   Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.

4. Personal Communications Service - Wikipedia

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   A personal communications service (PCS) is set of communications capabilities that provide a combination of terminal mobility, personal mobility, and service profile management. [1] This class of services comprises several types of wireless voice or wireless data communications systems, typically incorporating digital technology, providing ...

5. History of radio - Wikipedia

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   Mobile Telephone Service was expensive, costing US$15 per month, plus $0.30–0.40 per local call, equivalent to (in 2012 US dollars) about $176 per month and $3.50–4.75 per call. [77] The Advanced Mobile Phone System analog mobile phone system, developed by Bell Labs , was introduced in the Americas in 1978, [ 78 ] [ 79 ] [ 80 ] gave much ...

6. History of telecommunication - Wikipedia

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   The wireless revolution began in the 1990s, [57] [58] [59] with the advent of digital wireless networks leading to a social revolution, and a paradigm shift from wired to wireless technology, [60] including the proliferation of commercial wireless technologies such as cell phones, mobile telephony, pagers, wireless computer networks, [57 ...

7. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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   Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...