Denise Griffitts - Your Partner In Success!

Marty Cooper - The Cell Phone has Transformed Humanity - Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur  Martin Cooper, inventor of the cell phone and technology visionary joins Your Partner In Success™ Radio to share how the cell phone has transformed humanity. While at Motorola in the 1970s, he invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983. He is considered the "father of the (handheld) cell phone” and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public. Who did he call and why? I will ask him! That first cell phone began a fundamental technology and communications market shift to making phone calls to a person instead of to a place. Bell Labs had introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947, but their first systems were limited to car phones which required roughly 30 pounds (12 kg) of equipment in the trunk. Motorola gained Federal Communications Commiss