  advanced mobile phone system (amps) is an analog mobile cell phone system standard developed by bell labs, and officially introduced in the americas in october 13, 1983,private line.milestonespast. israel in 1986, and australia in 1987. it was the primary analog mobile phone system in north america (and other locales) through the 1980s and into the 2000s. as of february 18, 2008, carriers in the united states were no longer required to support amps and companies such as at&t and verizon have discontinued this service permanently. amps was discontinued in australia in september 2000. == history ==  the first cellular network efforts began at bell labs (which first proposed the idea of a cellular system in 1947 and continued to petition the fcc for channels through the 1950s and 1960s) and with research conducted at motorola. in 1960, john f. mitchell, an electrical engineer who had graduated from the illinois institute of technology, became motorola's chief engineer for its mobile-communication products. mitchell oversaw the development and marketing of the first pager to use transistors. motorola had long produced mobile telephones for automobiles, but these large and heavy models consumed too much power to allow their use without the automobile's engine running. mitchell's team, which included the gifted dr. martin cooper, developed portable cellular telephony, and mitchell was among the motorola e
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