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04 Jun 2013

Cambridge Wireless’ New SIG Celebrates Wireless Heritage – Call for SIG Champions

The very nature of the Wireless industry is forward thinking and focussed on how it can advance, but the back story of Wireless’ evolution sparks much interest among a number of Cambridge Wireless members and with several having expressed an interest in this, Cambridge Wireless will be forming a Wireless Heritage SIG – its purpose, to organise and find sponsorship for a range of events focussing on this revolutionary industry’s heritage.

Wireless technology has changed drastically over the past few decades and is continuing to evolve at a rapid pace. It’s this process of evolution from radio to cellular, to more recently, wifi that allows us to communicate, function and live the way we do day-to-day in this connected world.

Over the past few years Cambridge Wireless, the premium networking forum for the Wireless industry, has organized a number of events which have drawn on a range of wireless heritage narratives to provide insight to contemporary technology and market issues, including ‘May Day, May Day’, a Public Safety Radio Conference  in association with the Pye Telecom Heritage Trust, and ‘Cellular 25’, which marked the 25th anniversary of the cellular phone industry. ‘Cellular 25’ provided the genesis for a fund raising programme by the Science Museum to raise £12 million for a new telecommunications gallery. The gallery, now renamed ‘The Information Age’ will be completed in September 2014.

The very nature of the Wireless industry is forward thinking and looking at how it can advance further, but the back story of Wireless’ evolution sparks much interest among a number of Cambridge Wireless members and with several having expressed an interest in this, Cambridge Wireless will be forming a Wireless Heritage SIG – its purpose, to organise and find sponsorship for a range of events focussing on this revolutionary industry’s heritage.

Interest in a Wireless Heritage SIG has already been expressed during informal discussions with the Centre for Computing History, who will be relocating to Cambridge in the near future, and the Telecommunications Heritage Group based at the University of Salford. Prior contact has also been made with Silicon Glen, the silicon chip museum in Edinburgh, the BT archives and the Marconi Company archive.

The Wireless Heritage SIG is looking to present two events in the coming months, as well as looking ahead to 2015 and celebrating 30 years of the cellular phone industry at the Science Museum’s new permanent gallery, the Information Age (opening September 2014) with Cellular 30.

Backed by Geoff Varrall, Director of RTT Programmes, he and Cambridge Wireless will be hosting an exploratory meeting in July, with the additional intention of recruiting new SIG Champions. If you are part of a Founder organisation and take interest in the history and heritage of the Wireless industry, Cambridge Wireless invites you to join them.

For further information regarding the Wireless Heritage SIG exploratory meeting and / or becoming a SIG Champion, please contact Cambridge Wireless at [email protected]

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