Happy Birthday GSM

Today GSM networks have more than 4.4 billion subscriptions and the first GSM call on a commercial network was placed on 1 July, 1991

20th anniversary of the first phone call made over GSM – the Global System for Mobile communications.

The call – between Finland’s former prime minister, Harri Holkeri, and the mayor of Tampere, Kaarina Suonio – took place over a network jointly developed by Telenokia and Siemens Networks, the two companies that joined to form today’s Nokia Siemens Networks. It was made using a Nokia Mobira car phone.

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