Those Bell System technical improvements facilitated the electronic switching that takes place between the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO) and the POTS landline network. They also ...

The pager was the first compact mobile communication tool to appear on the mass market and although smartphones have largely ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that his officials were trying to give away a mobile telephony license for ...

This led to the Mobile Telephone Service (MTS) launch in 1946, or the first-ever wireless telephony system. Bell Labs’ car phone equipment weighed 80 pounds in its first generation. And even ...

A pager or ‘beeper’ is a small, portable communication device that receives short messages, typically numeric or alphanumeric ...

Thousands of pagers exploded within seconds across the Lebanon yesterday in a synchronized attack targeting the US-designated ...

Background The rapid increase in mobile telephone use has generated concern about possible health risks related to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from this technology. Methods An interview ...

One of Newbury’s biggest employers says its plans for a merger would benefit every school, community and hospital in the ...

Despite some telecom service areas still having a significant number of PCOs, the trend is unmistakable: PCOs are vanishing.

Press Release Nokia and OTE Group set dual world-record optical transmission rates over ultra long distancesCompanies set new transmission rate ...

An umbrella term for non-stationary telephone service such as in a moving vehicle. Two-way radios were conceived shortly after the turn of the 20th century and were in use during World War I.

This paper discusses aspects of recent policy towards mobile telephony in the UK including (i) the level of retail charges for calls from fixed to mobile networks, (ii) the level of call termination ...