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Hear a Mobile Phone Conversation from 1948!

On August 2, 1948, listeners to WTHT in Hartford, Connecticut, got to hear a conversation carried out by mobile telephone between the radio studio and a car speeding down a highway.  I’m now pleased to share the audio of that historic broadcast, which might be the oldest recording of a real mobile phone conversation—one that…

November 7, 2015 in Mobile Phone, Telephone History.

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