The wireless revolution began in the 1990s, with the advent of digital wireless networks leading to a social revolution, and a paradigm shift from wired to wireless technology, including the proliferation of commercial wireless technologies such as cell phones, mobile telephony, pagers, wireless computer networks, ...

When did wireless technology begin?

1896 - The wireless telegraph is invented

Guglielmo Marconi developed the first wireless telegraph system in 1896. The following year Marconi sent the world's first ever wireless communication over open sea. The experiment witnessed a message travelled over a distance of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi).

When was the first wireless communication?

“The world's first wireless telephone conversation occurred in 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented and patented the photophone, a telephone that conducted audio conversations wirelessly over modulated light beams (which are narrow projections of electromagnetic waves).”