It was on the 9th of August 1981 that Australia’s first mobile call was made on Telecom’s original public mobile network. The car phone weighed a whopping 14kg, was half a metre big and cost $5000 at the time — around $17,000 in today’s terms. It could only store 16 numbers, and the best part: you were alerted of incoming calls by honking the car horn or flashing the headlights!
1946. The War is over and life is starting to return to some semblance of normality. Two-way radios have been in widespread use but the telephone was starting to become the dominant form of communication. The Swedish police force are looking for a way to get the benefit of two-way radio and take advantage of the increasing popularity of the telephone.
