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MARTIN COOPER
Car-based mobile phones had been in limited use in large U.S. cities since the
1930s. By the early 1970s, they were used with a communications system called the
Mobile Telephone Service, which carried signals over the same VHF (very high
frequency) that FM radio stations used. Calls were placed not by dialing telephone
numbers, but by locking onto specific channels. The system was unreliable and
prone to congestion in urban areas, where it was impossible for more than 24
channels to operate on a given network. Moreover, the phones cost between $2,000
and $4,000 and had to be installed in an automobile because of the power source
and antenna that were both required for use; waiting lists for an available account
which usually only came up when a subscriber chose to disconnect the service
could be as long as three years
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