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NewsOkay, so ChatGPT just debugged my code. For real. Pin
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NewsMobile phone inventor made first call 50 years ago Pin
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He certainly wasn't the first to use a portable phone. Sweden started as early as 1951. Norway had a public mobile phone service (OLT - Offentlig Landobil Telefoni, Public Land based Telephony) running from 1966. It was operator assisted, though. So we must read the claim in the present article as "the first automated mobile phone".

The reason for naming OLT 'land based' telephony is that from as early as 1931 you could place phone calls to fishing boats along the Norwegian coast. This was a very manual system, though - you had to tell the operator in which area the boat was located, and the operator at its nearest Cost radio station called the radio operator on the fishing boat using medium wave radio, and hook the shortwave up to the phone land line. (The fisheries had their own radio frequencies, the 'Fisheries band' frequencies, in the upper part of the MW range.)

His phone is described as a 'cell phone'. However, no cellular network existed in 1973. This call must have been a point-to-point connection, probably not even needing any automatic switching! The first cellular phone network ever was using the NMT technology ("Nordic Mobile Telephone") developed in a joint project by the Nordic telecommunication administrations, started in 1969. The Nordic countries opened their networks, with roaming across the national borders, a couple of weeks after Saudi Arabia in 1981, being the first commercial cellphone network ever. At that time, the OLT mobile phone system had 30,000 Norwegian subscribers (in a population of slightly above 4 million). Over the years, 30 countries adopted the Nordic technology. In Norway, NMT was operational to the end of 2004, when GSM (and its derivatives) had taken over.

I guess Marty Cooper's phone was first in some aspect(s) of mobile telephony, but most certainly not of mobile telephony (or cellular networks) as such.
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