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Remember the first telephones which came to public use in the 1920s? They can still be seen in old black-and-white-movies, where James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson plot with their Mafia palls via wooden wall telephones. These were big apparatus with a mouthpiece fixed to the wall and an earpeace on a long cord which had to be held to the ear while the caller screamed down the line in order to be heard on the other end. Distance posed a considerable problem in the early days of telecommunication. To be heard over twenty miles was a challenge to phone developers. Another problem was dialing. In consequence, with the first telephones, in absence of a dial, communication had to be established by a switchboard. How much has telephone communication changed since then.

Today, telephones are of common use in Western Countries and the United States of America. In Northern Europe there are practically no homes without a landline. Mobile phones are even more common. While there is often only one landline in a house, every member of the household owns a mobile phone, including children. This happened as a result of ingenious marketing. If we stop to wonder if it is really neccessary to have a phone handy at all times the answer probably would be "no". This was obvious to those who set out to increase the sale of phone units by rates unsuspected until the day.

Mobile phones

So what did they do? Invent a sort of hybrid which did a lot more than establish conversations: manage your agenda, take photos, connect with internet and provide games are some examples of the many features included in modern telephones, which, by the way, are hardly the size of a tuna can. While the advances of telecommunication in the last century were admirable, the launch of mobile phones can be considered one of the most spectacular successes of marketing in the last decade. - kubantelefon.com