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Old 06-29-2018, 03:36 AM
 
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My first phone I got in 1996/1997. A nokia of course. This was in Sweden and I think Europe were way ahead of the US when it came to phones back then. Most of my friends had cell phones in 1996. No camera phones but text messaging for sure.
Second-generation 2G cellular networks were commercially launched on the GSM standard in Finland by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991. They were launched on a limited basis in Baltimore and Washington corridor in 1995. They were marketed as PCS or Personal Communication Services.

So Europe and in particular Scandinavia was maybe 7 years ahead of the USA at the time.
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Old 06-30-2018, 03:24 AM
 
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Second-generation 2G cellular networks were commercially launched on the GSM standard in Finland by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991. They were launched on a limited basis in Baltimore and Washington corridor in 1995. They were marketed as PCS or Personal Communication Services.

So Europe and in particular Scandinavia was maybe 7 years ahead of the USA at the time.
Yes that's right.
I got my first GSM-phone at 1992, before that I have had some years NMT-Cell phone.
Before NMT I had ARP car phone.
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