Communications · Recorded milestone
2G digital mobile & SMS
Recorded year1991
GSM digitises mobile calls and introduces text messaging.
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Led to
- SmartphoneRecorded · 1994enables
- Games on mobile phonesRecorded · 1997enables
- Camera phoneRecorded · 1999enables
- Bluetooth phone earpieceRecorded · 2000enables
- Microblogging and hashtagsRecorded · 2006enables
- Earthquake early warningRecorded · 2007enables
- Kindle store and KDPRecorded · 2007enables
- Mobile moneyRecorded · 2007enables
- 4G LTERecorded · 2009enables
- Two-factor loginRecorded · 2011enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.