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Tomorrow's World | Mobile Phone | 13 September (1979)

Michael Rodd makes a call with an experimental cordless mobile phone. It's 1979 and time for the telephone to go mobile.

In this report from a longer programme, Michael Rodd (pictured above) examines a British prototype for a cordless telephone that allows the user to make calls from anywhere.


Also included at the end of this item is a rather nice out-take as Rodd also experiences the first mobile wrong number.

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