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apr 3, 1973 - Radio Common Carrier (RCC)

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Motorola Engineer Marty Cooper made the first call from a "real handheld portable cell phone". Like a radio, it could transmit voice communication through a push to talk system, but it used a public telephone network and had its own telephone number.

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apr 3, 1973
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~ 52 years ago