Global Communication Service history

Samuel Morse sent the first message from an electrical telegraph in 1844, from Washington, DC, to Baltimore.

In 1858, Queen Victoria sent the first transatlantic telegram to President James Buchanan in just sixteen hours, and Buchanan’s response arrived in ten, as opposed to the twelve days it would have taken via ship and land.

In just six years, twelve thousand miles of cable crisscrossed the United States; by 1861, Western Union had finished work on the first telegraph line that reached the East Coast from the West.

1867: Signal lamps: In 1867, the first dots and dashes were flashed by signal lamps at sea.

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He was granted a United States patent for the device in 1876.

1877: Acoustic phonograph: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison made incredible strides in sound recording and transmission when he completed the first acoustic phonograph in August of 1877.

1893: Wireless telegraphy: Nikolai Tesla was the first to successfully transmit radio waves wirelessly through a transmitter in 1893.

In 1896, he sent his first long-distance wireless transmission.

Because it allowed continuous, up-to-date news and entertainment for people regardless of their income or literacy levels, it became immensely popular. Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi received a United States patent for radio technology in 1904, three years after he claimed to have sent the first transatlantic radio signal.

By 1907, just over a decade after the first motion picture was released in France, two million Americans were going to the movies at nearly eight thousand movie theaters nationwide.

1915: First North American transcontinental telephone calling: Alexander Graham Bell is back in the history books again after he made the first coast-to-coast call by phone in January of 1915 to his assistant.

In 1927—the same year as the first television transmission—the telephone officially went international.

The first television broadcast, in 1928, marked the beginning of a new era of mass consumption of news and entertainment.

In 1929, at its apex, Western Union transmitted more than 200 million telegrams.

1930: First experimental videophones: In 1930, AT&T had decided to create a two-way experimental videophone they called the Iconophone.

1934: First commercial radio-telephone service, United States-Japan: The first radio telephone calls from the United States to Japan were first made in 1934.

1936: World's first public videophone network: The world, now in the throes of World War II, sees the first public videophone network installed in Nazi Germany in March of 1936 during a trade fair.

1946: Limited-capacity mobile telephone service for automobiles: In June of 1946, the first telephone call was made from an automobile phone.

1956: Transatlantic telephone cable: The first 36-circuit transatlantic telephone cable was installed in 1956.

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.

Since the launch of the first communications satellite in 1962, satellites have been an integral part of global communications.

1964: Fiber-optic telecommunications: In 1964, Charles Kao and George Hockham published a paper that proved that fiber-optic communication could be possible as long as the fibers used to transmit the information were free of impurities.

1965: First North American public videophone network: In 1965, the first picturephone service began in trials.

Our story begins in 1967, with the birth of modern “Data Communication” which is a combination of telecommunication technology and personal computer.

1969: Computer networking: In October of 1969, the first data traveled between nodes of the ARPANET, a predecessor of the Internet.

1973: First modern-era mobile phone: Inventor Martin Cooper placed the first cellular mobile call in 1973 to his rival at Bell Labs, Joel Engel.

The network was originally launched only in Tokyo in 1979 and then was expanded.

1981: First mobile phone network: The first commercially automated cellular network was launched in Japan in 1981.

Spinning off from NTT, NTT DATA Communication Systems Corporation was established in 1988.

Short message service (SMS), the first form of text messaging, debuted in 1992 in the United Kingdom with a “Merry Christmas” from a software developer to a Vodafone employee.

1995: The company is incorporated as JFax.com Inc.

Muller and Rieley raised the necessary $2 million from a pair of "industrialists" (according to Global Finance), and commenced operations in April 1996.

1998: Mobile satellite hand-held phones: The first canopy of 64 satellites was put into place by a company called Iridium in 1998.

Hamerslag was a seaso ned chief executive, the founder and head of MIT Technologies, a glob al provider of data storage management products and services, before joining SureTalk in July 1999.

Finally, in No vember 2000, JFax used another $8.2 million in stock to acquire o ne of its chief rivals, eFax, a free Internet faxing service.

Jarus took over a company that was on the verge o f a significant rebound. j2 Global posted sales of $33.2 million in 2001, an increase of almost 300 percent.

When the numbers f or 2002 were tallied, revenues had increased to $48.2 million (du e in no small measure to the company's ability to convert eFax's free subscribers into paying customers) and instead of a loss j2 Global p osted net income of $14.3 million.

The Electric Mail, a Canadian-bas ed provider of outsourced email and value-added messaging services, w as purchased in March 2004.

In August 2005 t he company named co-presidents: Hemi Zucker, who also served as chief operating officer, and Scott Turicchi, who also held the title of ch ief financial officer.