Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes
"MatSav" wrote:
"Bruce" wrote in message
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I had a very early Vodafone mobile phone in 1986, a Motorola
with a
handset that clipped to the top of a lead/acid battery about
the size
of one on my 1150cc motorcycle. It was marketed as a "cellular
telephone" or "cell phone" for short.
There were only two UK networks at that time, Vodafone and
Cellnet.
Cellnet was of course a contraction of "cellular network".
So the term "cell phone" has been in use in the UK for more
than a
quarter of a century.
If I take out the SIM from my latest 'phone, and insert it (with
an adaptor) into my old 1990's Motorola mobile phone, it shows
the connected network as "BT Cellnet".
Old habits die hard. ;-)
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