Name: Ed Joshua G. Mañalac
Student Number: 2013-61222
Section: THY
Individual Project
History of Cellphone
(China)
In
life, communicating with one another is a very crucial thing. In the olden times,
people are used to transmit messages from one person to another. After
sometime, letter writing was used. As you can see, the way of communication
kept on advancing from time to time but now, what is the most commonly used
means of communication? I can say that it’s the cellphone. Have you ever
wondered on how cellphone evolved from time to time?
According
to an anonymous author, in 1843, Michael Faraday conducted researches and
experiments to see whether space could conduct electricity. In 1865, Dr. Mahlon
Loomis of Virginia might be the first person to transmit communication
wirelessly. In 1973, Dr. Martin Cooper, he was recognized as the inventor of
the first portable headset. “Doctor Cooper setup a base station in New York with
the first working prototype of a cellular phone.” In 1977, Cellular phones were
opened to public. (http://cellphones.org/cell-phone-history.html)
Basically, this timeline shows that as early as the 19th century,
people are already trying to find ways to communicate through space.
In
China, according to Wikipedia, wireless telephone was started by the Ministry
of Post and Telecommunications of China using GSM technology in 1987. In 2000,
there are 2 companies namely China mobile and China Unicorn and 1 fixed company
named China Telecom. In 2002, the China Telecom was split into China Netcom and
China Telecom for North and South China respectively. In 2008, there is another
reorganization of the telecom Industry. After the reorganization, there are 3
cellphone providers left namely China Mobile, China Unicorn, and China telecom.
In addition, there are also foreign companies like Datang Telecom, Huawei, ZTE
and more that contributes to the mobile industry of China. In general, China
produces almost 50% of all the cellphones on the world.
There
are so many mobile phone manufacturers for China. They have Nokia, Blackberry,
Apple, Lenovo, Huawei, Motorola, and many more. These only show the advancement
of cellphones not only on China but on the whole world itself. Way back,
cellphones are only simple. Some even look like walky talky. But now, the
cellphones are great. It can even track GPS and more. From simple phones, it
became a little complicated then became smartphones and IPhones. These simple
things show how knowledge advances very fast. Overall I say that having
cellphone is great and it is a simple solution in solving some problems in
life.
Bibliography
Anonymous Author. N.D. Cell Phone History. http://cellphones.org/cell-phone-history.html.
March 8, 2014.
Anonymous Author. 2014. Mobile Phone Industry in China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_industry_in_China.
March 8, 2014
Graylin, Alvin Wang. 2010. A Snapshot of the Chinese Mobile
Industry Today. http://www.mobiadnews.com/?p=5004.
March 9, 2014
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