CTIA is the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications Industry, Dedicated to Expanding the Wireless Frontier


Wireless is constantly and dramatically changing the way we live, work and play. November's CTIA’s WOW Webcast showcases:

 Interview with Ralph de la Vega

 MHealth Innovations

 Driving Safety

 Lost Skier Saved with Cellphone!

Come watch WOW, now!

History of Wireless Communications
From Building the Wireless Future® to Expanding the Wireless Frontier™

1800's | 1900's | 2000's
1876
  • Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. The following year, the first private telephone was installed in the home of Charles Williams of Somerville, MA. By the end of 1880, 47,900 telephones were in use in the U.S.

1895

  • Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communications by sending and receiving the first radio signal. Four years later, Marconi flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel.