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Mobile Phone Celebrates 40Th Anniversary

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3 April 2013 Last updated at 09:58 GMT
Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary


The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973.

Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from "a 'real' cellular telephone".

In 2012 a report carried out by the International Telecommunication Union found that there were six billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22013228

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place

 

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Martin Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone, with the prototype Motorola DynaTAC 8000X he created in 1973.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place

 

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