The first mobile phone call in the UK was a strange publicity event. To show off their new network, Vodafone chose comedy legend Ernie Wise to make the call to their head office on New Year’s Day in 1985.
Why he was dressed in Dickensian costume and riding a 19th-century mail coach is anyone’s guess . . .
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