Mobell

Happy 21st Birthday to Mobell !!

It was exactly 21 years ago we took delivery of our first five mobile phones.

They were Motorola 4500x “transportable” models.  They weighed 3.5Kg and cost £350 each.  Just two weeks later we bought our first “hand portable” phones, the NEC 9A. At less than 1Kg these were the lightest on the market, and cost £649 each.

These phones were on the Vodafone network (called Racal-Vodac at the time), but disappointingly there was no Vodafone signal at our office, so we had to drive them all out to a nearby hill in order to test them between rentals!