![]() Nine out of ten people in the world today are now within reach of a terrestrial GSM network. It is considered by many today as the first make-and-break telephone. It wasn’t long before other countries made the decision to adopt the GSM standard, which was a great improvement on what was available in the US. The Reis telephone, an invention by Johann Philipp Reis, a self-taught German scientist and inventor was constructed in 1861. While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a. They would include provision for SMS (short message service, or texting), and would have increased security features. As publicity mounted, so did the pressure to get the telephone into production. Though inventions like the Corliss steam engine seemed to be the mightiest, the telephone commanded attention for its utility to the average person. They would initially use a single radio frequency band, 900 MHz, across Europe, ensuring that users could pick up a signal wherever they were. Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone invention amazed visitors at The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. Unlike the first cellular networks, which had used analogue signals, GSM systems would transmit digitally: they were known as ‘second generation’ or 2G systems. ![]() Originally, it was named for the Groupe Spécial Mobile who had thrashed out the terms, but this subsequently changed to Global System for Mobile Communications. The common standard agreed in 1987 was called GSM. ![]()
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