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!
