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Dec 27, 2014 · The first call was made by 24-year-old Michael Harrison, the son of the first Chairman of Vodafone. On 1st January 1985, he made the UK’s first mobile call using another model, the Transportable ...
Jan 4, 2015 · The UK’s first mobile phone call was made just over 30 years ago on January 1st, 1985, from Parliament Square in London. Fledgling telecom firm Vodafone made the call – it was the first company to have a network. The call was made by Michael Harrison, son of Sir Earnest Harrison, the former chairman of Vodafone.
Dec 27, 2014 · Olivia Solon. On January 1, 1985, the first mobile phone call was made in the UK. It was made by Michael Harrison, the son of Sir Earnest Harrison who was the first chairman of Vodafone. The call ...
Jan 1, 2015 · Michael Harrison reconstructs the moment he made the UK's first mobile phone call, to his father, Vodafone boss Sir Ernest Harrison, in 1985.
Apr 3, 2023 · The first-ever mobile phone call was made on 3 April 1973, by Motorola engineer Marty Cooper, while standing on the corner of Sixth Avenue in New York City. He rang a rival at Bell Laboratories, who had been endeavouring to build a car-based mobile phone, to triumphantly tell him that he was calling from “a personal, handheld, portable cell ...
Jan 20, 2023 · 2003 - UK's first 3G handsets. On 2 March 2003 Hutchinson launched the UK's first 3G service, '3'. Patricia Hewitt MP, the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, made the first phone call on '3'. 3G brought in a huge amount of revenue to the UK Treasury, however, network providers were slow to put it in place.
Apr 11, 2023 · 1985: Comedian Ernie Wise made the first “public” mobile phone call in the UK from outside the Dickens Pub in St Katherine's dock to Vodafone’s HQ in full Dickensian coachman’s garb.
