A Brief Examination Of Mobile Telephony

							Title:
A Brief Examination Of Mobile Teleph
ony

Word Count:
445

Summary:
The novel technology of mobile tele
phony has over the last years becom
e the focus point of numerous discu
ssions, both in academia and busine
ss environments, due to its tremend
ously social penetrating abilities.
 Making the conveyance from telepho
ne's cultural heritage to that of t
he mobile's augmented reality has g
enerated as much support from vario
us critics, as it has discontent. B
ut the fact still remains that for
the privileged developed half of th
e world, mobiles have bec...


Keywords:
Mobile telephony, technology, telec
ommunications, mobile phones


Article Body:
The novel technology of mobile tele
phony has over the last years becom
e the focus point of numerous discu
ssions, both in academia and busine
ss environments, due to its tremend
ously social penetrating abilities.
 Making the conveyance from telepho
ne's cultural heritage to that of t
he mobile's augmented reality has g
enerated as much support from vario
us critics, as it has discontent. B
ut the fact still remains that for
the privileged developed half of th
e world, mobiles have become to be
viewed as a trendy necessity as wel
l as a social networking tool.

An electronic telecommunications de
vice, the mobile phone or cellular
phone, commonly referred to as the
"cell," has become one of those per
sonal property items that can fit t
he criteria of being both a gadget
and a tool. Offering its communicat
ing services since the early to mid
 1980s, the considerably larger ver
sion of the mobile phone was perman
ently installed in vehicles as car
phones. As technological innovation
s made miniaturization possible, th
e majority now of mobile phones are
 easily controlled and operated sin
gle-handed. Moreover, the standard
voice feature has been enhanced wit
h additional services, like text me
ssaging, camera capabilities, inter
net browsing and MMS features for s
ending and receiving photos and video.

Mainly due to their low establishme
nt costs and rapid deployments, mob
ile phones have since their first i
ntroduction spread rapidly througho
ut the world, outstripping the grow
th of fixed telephony. From Europe
and Australia, to Asia and America,
 mobile phones are now widely used,
 with the majority of adults, teena
gers and even children now owning a
t least one model. Packed with wide
ly diverse features, from alarms to
 teleconference abilities, mobile p
hones have set the pace to a new ty
pe of communication based culture.
But the extreme overload of cell ph
ones has not resulted in closer or
more genuine communication principl
es. Still people, in most cultures,
 base their business deals and pers
onal affiliations to face-to-face i
nteraction, leaving mobile telephon
y less ground to grow as a meaningf
ul type of communication. After all
, it is not that different than hav
ing a fixed telephone line; the dif
ference mainly being that you carry
 that line whenever you might be.

Yet, mobile telephony use has becom
e ubiquitous due to the interoperab
ility factor telecom networks have
endorsed and most have allowed it t
o spread across continents. In fewe
r than twenty years, mobile phones
have indeed gone from being rare an
d expensive devices mainly used by
businesses, to low-cost, trendy and
 personal items, used by everyone w
ho wishes to have the ability to re
ach and be reached by others. But,
interestingly enough, sociologists
have realized that, as any other ty
pe of social networking device, mob
ile users began to develop vastly d
ifferent practices based on their o
wn cultural biases.