NMT (1G) – making telephony mobile FIRST Generation

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History of the first generation



NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) was the first generation of mobile telephony, laying the foundation for the communications revolution that has seen the mobile phone become an integral part of the daily lives of billions of people around the world. Though mobile telephony is still considered a relatively new phenomenon, the first NMT network went live on September 1, 1981 in Saudi Arabia, a development that was part of what was at that point the largest telecommunications contract ever signed.
One of the early goals of the process was to take the drama out of using mobile phones to make calls, and though it was still seen as something of a dramatic development when the cumbersome devices of the time were first made available to consumers, they quickly decreased in size before becoming ubiquitous.