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  2. The hot new status symbol: phone calls

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    The hot new status symbol: phone calls. Emily Stewart. Updated September 5, 2024 at 11:37 AM. Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI. There are a lot of ways you might characterize customer ...

  3. Excel Communications - Wikipedia

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    Excel was founded in 1988 by Dallas entrepreneur Kenny Troutt and Steve Smith, as a long-distance reseller in the US telecom sector at the birth of telecom deregulation. In the mid-1980s, Smith developed an interest in the network marketing business model. He recognized the marketing and compensation strategy was suited for the marketing and ...

  4. Excel mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    Excel mobile phones. The Excel/Excell marketed a range of mobile phones developed by the British company Technophone in the 1980s. These mobile phones were advertised as the smallest, lightest most intelligent mobile phones in the world at that time, and were the first to fit in a pocket. While larger than later mobile telephones at 7 inches ...

  5. Motorola DynaTAC - Wikipedia

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    A DynaTAC 8000X; the first commercially available mobile phone from 1983. Electrical engineer Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 3, 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007. The DynaTAC is a series of cellular telephones manufactured by Motorola from 1983 to 1994.

  6. Making cellphone calls may increase heart disease risk ... - AOL

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    Compared with people who made or received calls for 5 minutes or less each week, those who used their phone for: 5–29 minutes had a 3% increased risk. 30–59 minutes had a 7% increased risk. 1 ...

  7. List of country calling codes - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.

  8. Telephone keypad - Wikipedia

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    A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized when the dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) system was developed in the Bell System in the United States in the 1960s – this replaced rotary dialing, that had been developed for ...

  9. Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Martin Cooper (inventor) Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field. [2][3] On April 3, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from ...