Comments on: Happy 25th Anniversary of the first commercial cellular call! http://gigaom.com/mobile/happy-25th-anni/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brian Kirk http://gigaom.com/mobile/happy-25th-anni/#comment-363483 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:15:28 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/happy-25th-anni#comment-363483 Way to put the last 25-years of mobile into perspective. It is amazing to see how so many developing countries have simply leap-frogged from no telephony infrastructure to mobile so quickly.

]]> By: thecolor http://gigaom.com/mobile/happy-25th-anni/#comment-363484 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:14:42 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/happy-25th-anni#comment-363484 Since everything is “commercial” (someone paid for it)… it might be good to better define this use of “commercial”, since in actuality, the first commercial mobile phone service was launched in Japan by NTT in 1978: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, which would be 30 years. :) Just a note.

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