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Michael and Sir Ernest Harrison Making First UK Mobile Phone Call

Vodafone celebrates 35 years since first UK mobile phone call

Features | Matt Wall | 01 Jan 2020

At just after midnight on 1 January 1985 in Parliament Square, London, Michael Harrison made the UK’s first mobile phone call over Vodafone’s cellular network. He called his father Sir Ernest Harrison, Vodafone’s founder and first chairman, and said: “Happy New Year dad, it’s Mike here. This is the first call ever made on a … Continued

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