A Look Back At The Really Very first Cell Phone Sold Within the United States

When the very first cell phones had been manufactured, they had been big in size and rather bulky. They were also weighty and caused problems when folks carried them around with them. Today, even refurbished or used cell phones can fit in your pocket and hardly weigh more than a few ounces.

The first cell phone was sold on the market within the United States in 1983.

Motorola had the honors of doing this. It was a DynaTac model that weighed a pound and costing consumers about $3,500. The next year, Motorola introduced one more DynaTac version, the 8000X and also the cost was $3,995.

Within the early 1990s, a million subscribers would start utilizing the cell cell phone inside the United States. In 1991, Motorola introduced a third phone model, the MicroTac Lite and also the price tag for that was $1,000.

Even though AT&T and Bell Labs had created a cell cell phone prior to Motorola’s phone’s coming out, it would be years before they could start putting theirs on the market. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) took forever to grant the license that they needed to move forward.

If it hadn’t been for the feds dragging their feet on the issue, AT&T would have shut out Motorola as having the extremely initial cell phone to be sold within the United States. However, that was not to be. At the time the commercial analog service came out, the phone company in Chicago had changed its name to Ameritech from the previous Illinois Bell Phone Company. 

Altogether, it took almost 40 years for the Federal Government to make cell phones commercially available in the United States. Since there was a lot of consumer demand, they had no choice but to up the ante.

By the year 1987, cell cell phone customers had exceeded one million. Back then, the space for cell telephone usage was getting tight and crowded. It was time to implement some changes. The allocation for frequencies was increased, the cells that existed have been split as well as the technology had improved.

The FCC also made some changes. They were not willing to provide additional bandwidth and they did not want to pay for additional splitting cells nor did they want to build any more. Within the same year (1987), the Federal Government decided that other technologies of cell phones could be used. Today, even used cell phones have come a long way since The Brick.

The cell cell phone industry found new ways of embracing technology. This concept is still going on today and has evolved into a money making industry comprised of millions of phones, including older used cell phones that have been recycled back into the market.

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