The 1G (First Generation) Mobile Communications Technology Standards

During the development of the first generation (1G) mobile communications technologies, many organizations had not thought about standardizing a mobile communications technology. Due to the fact that a mobile communications market was regional and a network was run by a government agency or a monopoly organization, the standardization of a mobile communications technology was not occur to them. However, an interesting movement came from Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), which was standardizing a mobile communications technology. This chapter reveals the standardizations of the first generation (1G) mobile communications technologies including the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) standard and the impact of the NMT standard on the history of the mobile communications technology standards.