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In 1947, Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young proposed hexagonal cells for mobile phones. Philip T. Porter proposed that the cell towers be at the corners of the hexagons rather than the centers and have directional antennas that would transmit/receive in 3 directions into 3 adjacent hexagon cells.
The first fully automatic mobile phone system, called MTA (Mobile Telephone system A), was developed by Ericsson and commercially released in Sweden in 1956. This was the first system that didn't require any kind of manual control, but had the disadvantage of a phone weight of 40 kg. MTB, an upgraded version with transistors, weighing 9 kg, was introduced in 1965.
In 1967, each mobile phone had to stay within the cell area serviced by one base station throughout the phone call. This did not provide continuity of automatic telephone service to mobile phones moving through several cell areas. In 1970 Amos E. Joel, Jr. invented an automatic "call handoff" system to allow mobile phones to move through several cell areas during a single conversation without loss of conversation.
FIRST GENERATION MOBILE PHONES (1G)
The first commercial launch of cellular telecoms was launched in 1979. In 1981 the NMT system was launched in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. This was the first mobile phone technology that allowed international use of the mobile phone or so-called "roaming".