The world in your hand

The world in your hand

Tegucigalpa Honduras 1995, I was working for an International company “Aselcom” as a specialist in telecommunication when I had the chance to introduce new technology in my country, the “Cellphone”. The simple idea of making a call from anywhere your device has a signal was fascinating to me. At that time most people were using pagers to communicate, which was a limited form of communication. Although in the end my company did not win the contract to introduce this new technology, just knowing about this opportunity opened my eyes to what technology could facilitate and how it could change people’s lives.

Two months later I had the chance to try out this new technology. My company gave me a phone and compared to what we have now, it was a BIG cellphone. Although it was big, I was one of the first people to have this new technology and it changed my life right away. At the time my project at work was to provide wireless network communication to have Internet access in the University. No one on the team was able to make the equipment work, but using my new cellphone I was able to get assistant from the manufacturer located in Miami and make the network function. This network connection brought Internet access to students on campus. This project it was the beginning of my work with technology. I continued to gain interest and wanted to learn more and more about technology and wireless devices.