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Dec 27, 2020 · First published in 2015. This week marks the 30th anniversary of the first ever (civilian) mobile phone call made in the UK. The call was made from London's St Katharine Docks on 1 January 1985 ...
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- Dawn of 1G (1979) You can't get to 5G without one to four, and Japan introduced the first widely available analogue cellular system in 1979 - the catch was it didn't work outside cars, as portable batteries weren't powerful enough to go truly mobile.
- The first mobile (1983) The device used by Cooper in Manhattan on 3 April 1973 was a prototype of Motorola's DynaTAC 8000X - the first commercially available mobile.
- UK's first mobile phone call (1985) Advertisement. Michael Harrison made the UK's first mobile call from London's Parliament Square on 1 January 1985 to his dad, Vodafone chairman Sir Ernest Harrison.
- Flippin' 'eck! (1989) The mobile phone went from potential doorstep to something that James Bond might have considered using with Motorola's MicroTAC 9800X.
Dec 27, 2014 · The call - made 30 years ago - lasted all of one minute, but it started a revolution in how we live our lives. Last year, 134 billion minutes of mobile phone calls were made in Britain.
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.
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Vodafone was first to go mobile with the New Year's Eve call, but the head start was brief: BT Cellnet -- the forerunner of today's O2 -- launched its service just days later on 10 January 1985. Entertainer Ernie Wise, best known for his double act with Eric Morecambe, promoted the network a couple of weeks later with a photo-call at London's St Ka...
The first customer was investment banker Mungo Park. "I had a family friend, Ivon Donn, who became a [mobile phone] salesman," Park remembers. "He called me and said 'I got the job, I got the job...do you want to buy a phone?'" Being the first customer had one unexpected perk: Park never actually paid for the phone. "We filled in the form, but the ...
The mobile phone had an instant impact on Mungo Park's life."I was working for an American investment bank in London, but because of the time difference, Wall Street didn't close until 9pm. We had to be fully staffed in our office until 9pm, but we were also dealing with Switzerland, the Netherlands and everything else, which meant we had to be in ...
Vodafone began in 1982 as part of Racal Electronics, then one of Britain's biggest makers of military radio technology. The Vodafone name was chosen to smush together "voice," "data" and "fone." Mike Pinches was Vodafone's first technical director, responsible for creating the network's infrastructure from scratch. "I was one of the first five empl...
At the time, the only telecoms network in the UK was British Telecom. Pinches says, "We had a very clear objective: to give BT the fright of their lives." The two rival networks found themselves in an odd situation, however, as they had to agree on a first-generation standard. "BT were attempting to strangle us at every opportunity, and the first t...
The next job was to figure out where to actually put the kit that would carry the mobile signals. "We had to design where we wanted base station sites to put the masts up, negotiate with whoever owned the land or the building, and connect it to our exchanges. Pretty much all our connections were provided by BT, so again for our biggest competitor w...
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 ...
Dec 27, 2014 · The man who made the first ever mobile phone call in Britain has recalled the event 30 years on. Michael Harrison, the son of former Vodafone chairman Sir Ernest Harrison, became the first to test ...
