Let us salute America's contribution to mobile telephony. Without the global leadership and pace-setting standards openly and generously given to the world, (such as IDEN and AMPS) we'd all be using landlines all the time.

Today, I eagerly await your WiMAX.

Thank you, America.

According to this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Mobile_Telephone) web page, the NMT system was just about to be ready when they made there first call over in America.

So even if America was the first, it came darn close to be the second one. But this is just the first automatic mobile network, the manual mobile networks had been around for quite some time before 1973.

Amen, Jon,

Nothing new under the sun. Just incremental developments.

I guess a "priapic monolith" is just the thing to celebrate a "seminal cell call" with.

Typical US assumptions.

Finns introduced ARP (short for AutoRadioPuhelin) in 1971, which would be two years before Motorola.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoradiopuhelin

They'll be telling us they broke Enigma next......