Original Carterfone
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- Details
- Description
- Date Introduced
- 1959
- Photographer
- Richards, Mark
- Manufacturer
- Carterfone Communications Corporation
- Credit Line
- Courtesy of Scott Brear
- Copyright Owner
- © Mark Richards
- Object ID
- 102624591
The Carterfone acoustically connected mobile radios to the telephone network. Telephone companies sued in 1966. The FCC supported Carter, freeing U.S. telephone lines for many uses—including later answering machines, faxes and modems. Users in some countries waited until the 1990s.
