Gsm Wireless Inc history

1833 — Carl Friedrich Gauss [wikipedia] and Wilhelm Eduard Weber [wikipedia] deploy first regularly used electromechanical telegraph.

*1887 — Hertz proves existence of EM waves; first spark transmitter generates a spark in a receiver several meters away

1896 — Guglielmo Marconi demonstrates wireless telegraph to English telegraph office

*1897 — ``The Birth of Radio'' - Marconi awarded patent for wireless telegraph

7777 for tuned communication 1898 — Wireless telegraphic connection between England and France established

The first North American PCS 1900 (now GSM 1900) network opened – via a phone call by US Vice President Al Gore.

*1901 — Marconi successfully transmits radio signal across Atlantic Ocean from (first wireless communication across the ocean) Cornwall to Newfoundland

1902 — First bidirectional communication across Atlantic

*1914 — First voice over radio transmission

1927 — First long-distance TV transmission in the United States, conducted by AT&T Bell Labs.

1928 — First transatlantic TV transmission, from London to New York.

1979 — NTT/Japan deploys first cellular communication system

1990 — Formation of IEEE 802.11 Working Group to define standards for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)

1991 — First documented version of HTTP protocol, the protocol behind the World Wide Web.

*1994 — GSM system deployed in US, relabeled ``Global System for Mobile Communications''

1999 — Release of IEEE 802.11b WLAN protocol, supporting 1-11 Mbit/s data rates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band