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Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary

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  1. 2013/04/06
    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff Thread Starter

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

    Marty 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.

    At the time the global population was seven billion.

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