Mobile Communication Pioneers

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WWW: What We Want

The team organising the jubilee event of the pioneers of mobile communication
in Nürnberg under the motto

"The Future Of Mobile Communication Began (not only) in Nürnberg"


GSM is arguably the most successful technical development in the history of mankind, in so far as it has reached around 3 billion people, over a third of the planet’s population, as subscribers to digital mobile communication networks since the first launch of the service just 20 years ago. It is just as remarkable that the service is a rare example of being technically compatible across all continents. This, in turn, has, on the one hand, achieved general affordability through huge economies of scale and, on the other hand, fuelled advances in technology as well as the formation of new ways of communicating. It has become almost impossible to imagine everyday life without digital mobile communication, having established itself as a kind of global nervous system.

But what has lead to this development, how did it come about?

To find answers for theses questions we have to go back 30 years. This is what we want to achieve by holding this event:

    to bring people together, who took part and helped create this development, and

    to highlight the events and advance developments without which the documentation of GSM history remains incomplete.



A number of companies and their employees are to be named, who have strongly influenced the course of events

    SIEMENS and its C-network and digital switching technology in Germany,

    SEL and its early digital Wideband-TDMA concept Autotel-900,

    the institutions FTZ in Darmstadt and DETECON in Bonn,

    and, last but not least, TEKADE/PKI.


TEKADE Fernmeldeanlagen GmbH was based in Nürnberg; it had a long tradition and was almost synonymous with mobile telephony in networks A, where calls were manually switched, and semi-automatic networks B/B2 that had become the first “multi-national” technical standard. Lateron, around 1983, the company became part of Philips as PKI AG. From 1979 onwards, essential principles for high capacity mobile communication were developed in the context of pioneering projects, such as MATS-E, Hybrid System MATS-D, and associated advance development programmes, which then were to become incorporated into the GSM-standard, and which, furthermore, can be traced in other digital standards CDMA and UMTS and as far as the next generation, LTE.


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