Today marks 40 years since the first mobile phone call was made in Ireland. On 11 December 1985, the then communications ...
"If it wasn’t me, it would have been somebody else,” Martin Cooper, otherwise known as Marty, tells DCD. Except it wasn’t somebody else, it was Cooper who invented the first ever portable cell phone.
We asked four seasoned motorists to recount their memories of the early in-car telephones - Getty Anybody reading this on a hand-held phone should consider themselves fortunate. Forty years ago, the ...
40 years ago today (11 December 1985), then Minister for Communications Jim Mitchell, TD phoned broadcaster Pat Kenny in Ireland’s first mobile phone call.