By Cassy Frabott
1963 - First touch tone phones introduced to the public - 10 buttons
- Digital carrier techniques introduced
1964 - Bell puts video telephone into service, however a market is not found for it
1965 - First atomic bomb blast-resistant cable completed
- Communications satellites launched
- Electronic switching offices replaced mechanical switches
- Teri Pall invents the cordless phone
1968 - FCC allows non-Bell equipment to be attached to Bell's system lines
1970s - Bell's "Design Line" telephones introduced
“Celebrity” telephone “Chest” telephone
1970 - "Common carrier" companies allowed to install and to maintain business communications systems
1971 - General Telephone and Electronics introduces Digicom, which "let dispatchers identify patrol car locations on a screen, and allowed officers to run license plate checks."
1973 - Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first call from a portable cell phone
1977 - FCC institutes certification program - any telephone meeting standards can be connected to Bell's lines
1978 - Stromberg-Carlson introduces first digital switch
- Bell replaces last local cord switchboard
1982 - Carolyn Doughty invents Caller ID
1994 - FCC allows companies to manufacture 900 MHZ frequency phones – got rid of static caused by walls, appliances, and signals from other objects - later allowed manufacturers to make phones with frequencies of 2.4 & 5.8 GHZ, that were less prone to eavesdropping
1995 - The New Brunswick Telephone Company gets rid of busy signals
2009 - Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications, declares that Verizon is “simply no longer concerned with telephones that are connected with wires,” and plan to wire all of its territory with its fiber optic network
Cassy
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