Editing Autopatch (section)

== Phonepatch vs. mobile telephony ==
The practice of connecting an [[amateur radio station]] to a [[telephone network]] existed from the beginning of [[amateur radio]], and was used commercially as well (as was the case with [[Carterfone]],<ref name="Johnson">{{cite web |url=http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1485&context=chtlj
|title=Carterfone: My Story |last1=Johnson|first1=Nicholas|date=2008|department=digitalcommons.law.scu.edu|publisher=[[Santa Clara University]] School of Law|access-date=2015-02-03}}</ref> prompting lawsuits filed by the companies to which it was connected<ref name="FCC">{{cite web|url=http://www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/FCCOps/1968/13F2-420.html|title=In the Matter of USE OF THE CARTERFONE DEVICE IN MESSAGE TOLL TELEPHONE SERVICE; In the Matter of THOMAS F. CARTER AND CARTER ELECTRONICS CORP., DALLAS, TEX. (COMPLAINANTS), v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO., ASSOCIATED BELL SYSTEM COMPANIES, SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO., AND GENERAL TELEPHONE CO. OF THE SOUTHWEST (DEFENDANTS)|date=2008|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120021035/http://www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/FCCOps/1968/13F2-420.html|archive-date=2015-01-20|url-status=dead|access-date=2015-02-03}}</ref>).

The term ''phone patch'' more accurately describes a system that is dialed and connected to the telephone network by a user manually operating an amateur radio base station, which was more common before computer technology made automation of the process easier. This is contrasted with [[mobile telephony]], which began with the arrival of the [[cellular network]] [[Advanced Mobile Phone System|AMPS]], initially using a [[car phone]] as the cellular terminal, and finally with the arrival of the [[DynaTAC]], the first [[mobile phone]] "properly talking" (being able to hold the whole unit in the hand).<ref name="Magazines1970">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/PopularMechanics1970/Popular%20Mechanics-09-1970#page/n101/mode/2up/search/How+to+talk+to+Vietnam+free|title=How to talk to Vietnam—free |magazine=Popular Mechanics |date=September 1970}}</ref>