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No USA, no mobiles #

By Paul M. Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 21:34 GMT

Let us salute America's contribution to mobile telephony. Without the global leadership and pace-setting standards openly and generously given to the world, (such as IDEN and AMPS) we'd all be using landlines all the time.

Today, I eagerly await your WiMAX.

Thank you, America.

European mobiles #

By Jón Frímann Jónsson Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 00:35 GMT

According to this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Mobile_Telephone) web page, the NMT system was just about to be ready when they made there first call over in America.

So even if America was the first, it came darn close to be the second one. But this is just the first automatic mobile network, the manual mobile networks had been around for quite some time before 1973.

@Jón Frímann Jónsson #

By Brent Gardner Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 04:52 GMT

Amen, Jon,

Nothing new under the sun. Just incremental developments.

Apt. #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 08:37 GMT

I guess a "priapic monolith" is just the thing to celebrate a "seminal cell call" with.

Actually the first mobile phones were introduced in 1971. #

By Anon999 Posted Thursday 3rd April 2008 18:36 GMT

Typical US assumptions.

Finns introduced ARP (short for AutoRadioPuhelin) in 1971, which would be two years before Motorola.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoradiopuhelin