Cooper spent 29 years at Motorola Inc. in a variety of engineering and executive posts promoting early paging and cellular systems. ArrayComm originally developed its IntelliCell model of adaptable antennas for more efficient siting of antennas as new Personal Communication Service networks were rolled out in the 1.9-GHz band. The concept has won strong adherents in Japan's PHS network, but its penetration of North American and European markets has been spotty at best. That didn't stop Cooper. At the September PCS show in New Orleans, ArrayComm introduced its new technology, i-Burst, which uses the same techniques as IntelliCell to provide broadband access capabilities in unpaired frequency bands, which provides more bits per hertz than traditional MMDS or LMDS broadband radio concepts.
Cooper is straightforward.
In the mobile radio business, the traditional response to artificial scarcity has been to continue to split channels and reduce quality. My entire career has revolved around applying emerging technologies like sectorization and smart antennas to solve the problem of spectral efficiency, broadening a service to more users without reducing quality. The concept was so heretical in Motorola's mobile radio organization that Cooper almost got fired for his troubles. Between his stints in trunked and cellular radio, Cooper was active in paging network development and introduced the PageBoy II in 1970. Cooper was instrumental in conducting the first cellular trials in New York City in April 1973 and placed the first call from a Manhattan base station to rivals in Bell Labs in New Jersey, just to chide them about Motorola's lead.