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Britain's first official call on a mobile (following a beta test in London) was made on 1 January 1985 by 24-year-old Michael Harrison, son of Vodafone chairman Sir Ernest Harrison.
Dec 27, 2020 · The call was made from London's St Katharine Docks on 1 January 1985, via the Vodafone network, by comedian Ernest Wise.
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Jan 1, 2015 · The first official UK mobile phone call was made by comedian Ernie Wise on New Year’s Day 1985. But an earlier call was made that day to Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of what was then Racal ...
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Dec 27, 2014 · 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 was...
Nick Summers. Senior Editor. Updated Thu, Jan 1, 2015 · 4 min read. Exactly 30 years ago today, two men made history by completing the first mobile phone call in the UK. As everyone celebrated the...
Jan 1, 2015 · The first mobile phone calls were made on Cellnet and Vodafone 30 years ago today. The companies we know as Vodafone and O2 today were Racal-Vodafone and Securicor-Cellnet back then, phones were the size of a small suitcase and only did voice. They didn’t even let you assign names to the numbers in the phonebook.
Jan 1, 2015 · 1 January 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.
