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The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network. While the transmission of speech by signal has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, mobile, and also capable of connecting to the standard telephone network are much more recent.
This forms a new AT&T (long-distance service and equipment sales) and the Baby Bells. 1987: ADSL introduced; 1988: First transatlantic fiber optic cable TAT-8, carrying 40,000 circuits; 1990: analog AMPS was superseded by Digital AMPS. 1991: the GSM mobile phone network is started in Finland, with the first phone call in Tampere. [45]
As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.
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NYNEX Corporation / ˈ n aɪ n ɛ k s / was an American telephone company that served five states of New England (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) as well as most of the state of New York from January 1, 1984 to August 14, 1997.
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