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Arlene Joy Harris (born June 6, 1948), also known as the "First Lady of Wireless,"〔(''Jitterbug: the anti-MVNO,'' ), Fierce Wireless, June 15, 2007〕〔(''The First Lady of Wireless Built Mobile startup to Send Message of Simplicity,'' ) Xconomy, San Diego, March 13, 2009〕〔(''One Trick Pony,'' ) Forbes, January 17, 2007〕〔(''Wireless Hall of Fame – Arlene Harris,'' ) RCR Wireless, May 26, 2007〕 is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate. Her career spans a lifetime of innovation in mobile services and systems technology and later, wireless consumer products and services. Harris started and built several successful companies, pioneered many of the early cellular industry standards and holds numerous issued wireless communications patents.〔 In May, 2007 she won industry-wide acclaim as the first woman inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame. Harris is co-founder and CEO of (Dyna LLC ), in Del Mar, California, where she incubates new ideas and businesses with husband and business partner Martin Cooper, a former Motorola Vice-President and Division Manager who developed and introduced the first handheld cellular mobile phone in 1973.〔〔 She is founder and currently incubating (wrethink ); a company focusing on delivering effortless user experience to the family. ==Early life== Harris was born in Los Angeles, California. She began her career at the age of 12 as a mobile telephone switchboard operator for her family's business, Industrial Communications Systems Inc., (ICS) (sold to Metromedia in 1983, now USA Mobile) in Los Angeles, California.〔(''Only Connect,'' ) New York Times - Style Magazine, September 28, 2008〕 In 1969, Harris left ICS for a formative stint with Air Canada and Continental Airlines helping to scale their business operations in preparation for the new wide bodied airplanes. She returned to ICS three years later. In 1981, under her guidance, ICS developed the first wireless consumer healthcare application called "Life Page," a program that provided pagers to organ transplant recipients. She later promoted and expanded the program to the National Trade Association for independent wireless operators Telocator, that later became the Personal Communications Industry Association.〔 ICS created state-of-the-art communication and, under Harris' direction, became the largest single city paging system in the world.〔 Most notably, ICS was among the first of any category of business to create online computer systems to manage the company's business subscriber offering. While selling directly to businesses ICS also supported the first wholesale wireless service in history, starting in 1972. The wholesale model promoted substantial growth and shareholder value for ICS, its suppliers, and its partners. Because of the success of ICS's wholesale strategy in bolstering the opportunities for partners and service adoption by new users, their resale concept was mandated by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the original cellular spectrum allocations in 1982. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arlene Harris (inventor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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