“It was December 1, 1979, and Japan's national monopoly telecoms operator/carrier, NTT, launched the world's first mobile telecoms service commercially, with a fully functional network covering the 23 districts of Tokyo to start with, and by 1984 would offer national coverage across all of Japan. No, this was not the famous phone by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola who is so frequently, but mistakenly credited for starting this industry. The early phones were carphones. The first service was purely a 'rental' service, which had a 2,000 dollar sign-up fee (remember those?) in the form of a deposit; plus a monthly fee of 300 dollars (ie 3,600 dollars per year, ouch..). And voice minutes cost 10 cents per every 6 seconds ie one dollar per minute. These new mobile phones were seen by all experts and analysts including management at NTT as only a niche product for the wealthy and powerful. But that was the starting point.”
06 December 2009
Happy 30th Birthday Mobile Phones!!!
“It was December 1, 1979, and Japan's national monopoly telecoms operator/carrier, NTT, launched the world's first mobile telecoms service commercially, with a fully functional network covering the 23 districts of Tokyo to start with, and by 1984 would offer national coverage across all of Japan. No, this was not the famous phone by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola who is so frequently, but mistakenly credited for starting this industry. The early phones were carphones. The first service was purely a 'rental' service, which had a 2,000 dollar sign-up fee (remember those?) in the form of a deposit; plus a monthly fee of 300 dollars (ie 3,600 dollars per year, ouch..). And voice minutes cost 10 cents per every 6 seconds ie one dollar per minute. These new mobile phones were seen by all experts and analysts including management at NTT as only a niche product for the wealthy and powerful. But that was the starting point.”
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