There is a world of difference between mobile phones and cell phones. Mobile hones in the 1950's and 60's were essentially a pair of one-way radios that had a base station connected to the POTS network. We had those behemoths in the 'States too, with a rack of equipment about the size of a suitcase installed in the auto's trunk. I don't think the base stations are still around.
Cell phones are much lower power, have lots more base stations and can do a lot more than just talk :-)... Doug -- Doug Blair +1 224-558-5462 Sent from my new iPad Auto-corrected typos, misspellings and non-sequiturs are gratefully attributed to Steve Jobs :-) On Apr 5, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Misi Mladoniczky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > By the way, here is a picture of the Swedish mobile phone MTA v2 from 1959: > http://gertolof.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/1959-mobiltelefon-mta-2.jpg?w=500 > > Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se > >> All, >> >> >> >> Even though it is not Friday, if found that today (April 3) marks the 40th >> anniversary of the first cell phone call >> >> >> >> So since we all use them and abuse them, maybe we need to give them the gift >> of cleaning our cell phone, letting them sleep in or even buying them a nice >> dinner (some bits and bytes would be nice. >> >> >> >> See the article at Huffington post. >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/cell-phone-birthday_n_3007003.html >> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/cell-phone-birthday_n_3007003.html >> ?utm_hp_ref=email_share> >> >> >> >> Take care all, >> >> >> >> hbr >> >> >> >> Howard Richter >> >> Red Hat Certified Technician >> >> CompTIA Linux+ Certified >> >> ITIL Foundation Certified >> >> E-Mail = [email protected] >> >> Linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/hbr4270 >> >> Please consider the environment before printing this message >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org >> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
