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Thomas Farely

Tom has produced privateline.com since 1995. He is now a freelance technology writer who contributes regularly to the site.

His knowledge of telecommunications has served, most notably, the American Heritage Invention and Technology Magazine and The History Channel.
His interview on Alexander Graham Bell will air on the History Channel the end of 2006.

Ken Schmidt

Ken is a licensed attorney who has worked in the tower industry for seven years. He has managed the development of broadcast towers nationwide and developed and built cell towers.

He has been quoted in newspapers and magazines on issues regarding cell towers and has spoke at industry and non-industry conferences on cell tower related issues.

He is recognized as an expert on cell tower leases and due diligence processes for tower acquisitions.

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November 07, 2002

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 12:25 AM

Interviews at the IEEE site

Interested in mobile telephone and cellular telephone history? Besides reading my long article on the subject, be sure to scan Joel Engel's and Donald Cox's oral interviews at the IEEE site. Cox and Engel are both former Bell System employees, both pioneers of cellular. Keep something in mind while you read. Because Bell System history is so well documented it is easy to think Bell Labs and Western Electric alone developed cellular. They did not. In America, Motorola contributed a great deal, providing much competition to the Bell System Around the world, the Scandinavians and the Japanese built cellular networks by themselves and in time frames slightly before AT&T's commercial systems. The Japanese company, Oki, not Western Electric, supplied the Bell System's car mounted cellular telephones.

Joel Engel:

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history

_center/oral_histories/transcripts/engel.html

Donald Cox:

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history

_center/oral_histories/transcripts/cox.html

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