Cell Phones Break Into the Mainstream

(1995 - 1999)

Wireless phones become a

part of everyday life.

• 1995 - 33 million wireless subscribers
• 1999 - 86 million subscribers to wireless phones
• During this time, phone manufacturers compete to make the "smallest" phone.
  • Motorola rises to the top of the small phones with its Startac phone, no bigger than a deck of cards

    

    • Motorola Startac Phone