Cell phones have gone through cycles of technological advancement know as
generations. The term “generation” refers to the type of network that the cellphone
communicates over, and is linked with advances in cell phone technology. The first
generation, or 1G, network introduced advances that surpassed the zero generation, 0G,
such as multiple cellular tower sites, and the capability of a network to automatically
transfer, or handover, the call to different sites based on the callers location in the
network.