{"id":943164,"date":"2025-07-03T06:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943164"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:10:31","slug":"he-pioneered-cellphone-it-changed-how-people-around-world-talk-to-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/he-pioneered-cellphone-it-changed-how-people-around-world-talk-to-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"He pioneered cellphone. It changed how people around world talk to each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Del Mar, US: Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. <\/p>\n<p>The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola&#8217;s research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was locked in a 1970s corporate battle to invent the portable phone. Cooper rejected AT&amp;T&#8217;s wager on the car phone, betting that America wanted to feel like Dick Tracy, armed with &#8220;a device that was an extension of you, that made you reachable everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Del Mar, US: Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola&#8217;s research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was locked in a 1970s corporate battle to invent the portable phone. Cooper rejected AT&amp;T&#8217;s wager on the car phone, betting that America wanted to feel like Dick Tracy, armed with &#8220;a device that was an extension of you, that made you reachable everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}