TABLE OF CONTENTS Mobile phone technology is now a major aspect of today s life, both business and personal. Instant access to people, wherever they are, is now an accepted part of today s culture. Business requires that people, whether at home or abroad, remain in constant touch, and this is now possible through the development of the mobile phone. In their private lives people have also come to depend on mobile phones, initially using them sparingly and only in cases of emergency, but they have now become an accepted part of everyday life. Many people do not have a traditional landline, and rely only on the mobile for their telecommunications requirements.
Before work started on developing the mobile phone itself, there were many technologies that needed to be in place. Obviously the work of the early pioneers, including Volta, Amp re, Galvani and many more who established the foundations of electricity, was paramount. However, electricity was not used as a means of communication for a number of years. Long-distance communication was generally by written message carried by a courier. Other systems were also used, but these were either mechanical or crude in nature for example, a network of bonfires was set up along the South of England to warn of the invasion by the Spanish Armada, and in 1792 Claude Chappe devised and installed some semaphore towers in France, for which the word telegraph was coined. However, it took the discovery of electromagnetism by Hans Christian Oersted before viable electrical systems could...
