If Alexander Graham Bell were around today, that might be how he'd summon his intrepid assistant, Thomas Watson. Of course, for some oldheads that message might take a minute to decipher, or just give ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first phone call with his brother after he was elected the first American pontiff was caught live by a reporter — with the Holy Father needling his sibling about “two hours” worth of ...

On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with the ...

On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...

A video released to document the first phone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and newly-elected British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has offered a rare glimpse into the logistics behind ...

Three operators won the licenses and each license cost $285 million. Prior to 2001, mobile communication in Nigeria was a luxury. It was barely accessible, unreliable, and limited to a few thousand ...

On Thursday, 27 March 2025, on the edge of the small North West town of Vryburg, MTN South Africa and US-based satellite provider Lynk Global conducted Africa’s first satellite-to-smartphone voice ...

"If it wasn’t me, it would have been somebody else,” Martin Cooper, otherwise known as Marty, tells DCD. Except it wasn’t somebody else, it was Cooper who invented the first ever portable cell phone.

We asked four seasoned motorists to recount their memories of the early in-car telephones - Getty Anybody reading this on a hand-held phone should consider themselves fortunate. Forty years ago, the ...