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2. Wireless home phone - Wikipedia

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   A wireless home phone service is a service that allows a regular wired telephone to connect to a cellular network, as if it were a mobile phone. [1] [2] It is an example of a wireless last mile connection to the public switched telephone network, also known as a wireless local loop . A small device, about the size of a home wireless router ...

3. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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   A Panasonic KX-TG2226B 2.4GHz cordless phone with answering machine. 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.

4. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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   1667 to 1875. 1667: Robert Hooke creates an acoustic string telephone that conveys sounds over a taut extended wire by mechanical vibrations. [1][2] 1844: Innocenzo Manzetti first suggests the idea of an electric "speaking telegraph", or telephone. 1849: Antonio Meucci demonstrates a communicating device to individuals in Havana.

5. Microsoft Cordless Phone System - Wikipedia

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   The Microsoft Cordless Phone System (also known as PC Phone System MP-900) [1] is a discontinued cordless telephone introduced by Microsoft in 1998 that featured personal computer integration. [2][3] It was Microsoft's first telephone of any kind, [2][4] and the only phone product made by the company until the Windows Mobile series of smartphones.

6. Wireless - Wikipedia

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   One of the best-known examples of wireless technology is the mobile phone, also known as a cellular phone, with more than 6.6 billion mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide as of the end of 2010. [19] These wireless phones use radio waves from signal-transmission towers to enable their users to make phone calls from many locations worldwide.

7. 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 ...