Meet The Man Who Invented The First Digital Cell Phone

The invention of the mobile phone is mostly attributed to Europeans, but the fact is, the first digital cell phone was invented by an African American man named Jesse Eugene Russell. Let’s dive more in to meet the man who invented rhe first digital cell phone.

Meet The Man Who Invented The First Digital Cell Phone

Russell was bred in Nashville, Tennessee. His family lived in a very needy and socially deprived part of Nashville. Fortunately, he got the chance to attend a summer education program at Fisk University and he did outstanding.  He later went on to study electrical engineering at Tennessee State University. Graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Russell went further in his academic achievements to acquire a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Standford University.

At the time Russell was working as an engineer at AT&T-Bell Laboratories in 1988, he brought the concept for the wireless digital phone and communication. During that period, mobile appliances were mainly used in vehicles, Russell planned a cell phone that could convey signals between handsets and cell phone towers as his experiment. Doing so would make mobile phones more handy and also more affordable. In a statement, Russell once said, “Most of the time people are not in their cars. I said, ‘Well that seems like an easy problem to solve, right? Why don’t we just take the phones out of the car and put them on the people.'”

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Accountable for other innovations in the field of wireless communications systems, He also created a company based in New Jersey called incNETWORKS Inc, a broadband wireless communication system that focuses on 4G broadband wireless communications technologies, networks and services.

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