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First Mobile Telephone Service offered by AT&T, however use was rare.
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Major improvements made to Mobile service offered by AT&T. Service was still less than convenient for customers to use.
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Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.[4][5] The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to re-charge
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The first analog cellular system deployed in Australia.
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First GSM Network deployed in Finland
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