This month is the thirtieth anniversary of the invention of mobile telephony and the twentieth anniversary of the first commercial cellphone. The mobile phone's inventor is a Canadian, and Canada offered the first cellular service.
In February, 1983, while dozens of companies were jockeying for licences in Ottawa, the Alberta government quietly launched Canada's first working cellphone service for oil-field explorers. Those brave pioneers who signed up for the Aurora-400 service were given the promised status symbol: A "luggable" phone the size of a briefcase.
(Thanks, Steve!)
