The message goes on to suggest using a disconnect switch and has a phone number for a company — American Cell — to call for disconnect instructions. The Dispatch called and emailed American ...

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men he’d been ...

When you get a cellphone, record its unique ESN, MEID or IMEI number, which appears in a sticker below the battery. This will help you track your phone. Call your service provider to disable the ...

Copper was named “The Father of the Cell Phone” and revered as an essential part of telecommunications history. As part of ‘Call Me, Maybe,’ a special production of The Pulse celebrating the 50th ...

Although the call was made in 1973, the first commercial cell phone model didn’t go on sale until 1983. The mythical DynaTAC 8000X was a type of brick with more buttons than the prototype Cooper ...

The rise of the cell phone For months before that first call, Motorola was racing to build a cell phone against Bell Labs, the legendary research arm of AT &T that had developed the transistor and ...

It wasn’t until the 1990s that the modern cell phone took off, as it shrunk way down in size and became much more user friendly. Today, 97% of Americans own a cell phone of some kind, according ...

It wasn't until the 1990s that the modern cell phone took off, as it shrunk way down in size and became much more user friendly. Today, 97% of Americans own a cell phone of some kind, according to ...