Martin Cooper, The Inventor of the Cell Phone, Discusses Wireless ...

By Demian Russian

Martin Cooper, Inventor of the Cell Phone

Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, will be the special guest on this evening?s?Playground Radio program (Tuesday, May 15th at 8:00PM ET)?for an exclusive interview to discuss wireless spectrum and data capacity issues.

Martin Cooper is Chairman and Co-Founder of DYNA, LLC. Cooper is also Co-Founder of ArrayComm, LLC, based in San Jose, CA and GreatCall, Inc, the innovator of the Jitterbug cell phone and service. Cooper has been involved in and contributed to virtually every major innovation in personal wireless communications in his over 50-year career. He conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973 and is widely recognized as an innovator in spectrum management. For 29 years, he led a number of major businesses at Motorola, including high-capacity paging, trunked mobile radio, cellular radio telephone, quartz crystals and oscillators, liquid crystal displays, piezo-electric components, Motorola A.M. Stereo technology, and various mobile and portable two-way radio product lines.

Following Motorola, Cooper co-founded Cellular Business Systems, Inc., a cellular billing system company. Cooper has numerous patents in the communications field. He is widely published and continues to write and lecture around the world about wireless communications, technological innovation, the Internet, and R&D management.?Cooper was involved in industry and government efforts to allocate new radio frequency spectrum for the land mobile radio services in the U.S. and has testified before the Federal Communications Commission and the United States Senate. He serves on the U.S. Department of Commerce Spectrum Advisory Committee that advises the President of the United States on spectrum policy. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Science Research and induction into the National Academy of Engineering in 2010. Most recently, Cooper was nominated for the ?Mikhail Gorbachev: The Man Who Changed the World? Award. He has bachelors and masters degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology, was awarded an honorary doctorate by that institution, and serves on its board of trustees. Martin Cooper has served on the boards of several public and private companies.

Mr. Cooper?will be interviewed this evening by Satellite Radio Playground?s Demian Russian and Spencer Osborne of SiriusBuzz.

Following tonight?s special guest interview with Mr. Cooper, Jeff Pierce, a market technician at Zentrader, will also be returning to be a special guest on this evening?s program. Mr. Pierce will be offering his thoughts on the market and Sirius XM Radio?s (NASDAQ:SIRI) stock chart. A discussion on all of latest happenings in the world of Satellite Radio will then follow.?Listeners will be welcome to call in and participate in the live discussion by dialing?(347) 934-0239.

This evening?s edition of Playground Radio will be available for live streaming at 8:00 pm ET via the following link:

Playground Radio ? Martin Cooper, Inventor of the Cell Phone

Disclosure: Long SIRI
Contact the author:?DemianRussian@SatelliteRadioPlayground.com

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