25 years of commercial mobile phone use in the USA

Today, 13th October, is the 25th anniversary of the first commercial mobile phone call in the USA. (Well, on a cellular network, anyway). Back in 1983, the president of Ameritech Mobile Communications called the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell in Germany using a Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. Incidentally, the first-ever public mobile phone call was made in April 1973... and the UK's first commercial call was in January 1985. [CTIA press release]

UK's mobile industry in "Brits Who Made The Modern World" TV documentary

Channel 5 television is broadcasting a documentary tonight that talks about the history of the UK's mobile phone industry. It's presented by Peter Snow and runs for 30 minutes from 7.30pm. [Source: Digiguide.com]