In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

* 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.

* au ( mobile phone company ), a mobile phone company in Japan

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X AMPS mobile phone

Advanced Mobile Phone System ( AMPS ) is an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1978, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987.

It was the primary analog mobile phone system in North America ( and other locales ) through the 1980s and into the 2000s.

Martin Cooper ( inventor ) | Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola, made the first private handheld mobile phone call on a larger prototype model in 1973.

This gave the cloner, through the Oki phone, the ability to use the mobile phone service of the legitimate subscriber whose phone was cloned just as if that phone had been physically stolen instead, except that the subscriber was not without his or her phone and was not aware that the phone had been cloned — at least until that subscriber received his or her next bill.

As part of the introduction of mobile phone competition in Australia, the Australian government mandated GSM as the new standard for mobile networks, and required that Telstra close the AMPS network by 2000.

The calls are seen as free by the UK contract mobile phone customers since they are using up their allocated monthly minutes rather than paying for additional calls.

MNO's Proximus and Mobistar offer digital television over mobile phone ( DVB-H ).

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

* Cell on wheels, a means of providing temporary mobile phone network coverage

By 2005 Colombia had the highest mobile phone density ( 90 percent ) in Latin America, as compared with the region ’ s average density of 70 percent.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

When the Vikings returned in force in 892 they found a kingdom defended by a standing, mobile field army and a network of garrisoned fortresses that commanded its navigable rivers and Roman roads.

There are three licensed mobile network operators ( MNO ) in Belgium, Proximus ( Belgacom ), Mobistar ( France Télécom ) and BASE ( KPN ) and numerous mobile virtual network operators ( MVNO ).

The CRTC is sometimes blamed for the current state of the mobile phone industry in Canada, in which there are only three national mobile network operators – Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, and Rogers Wireless – as well as a handful of MVNOs operating on these networks.

* Cell or mobile phone, a phone connected to a cellular network

This standard is used by several mobile phone companies, including the Globalstar satellite phone network.

One example is of a then Finnish mobile network company Sonera, which paid huge sums in German broadband auction then dubbed as 3G licenses.

:* General Assessment: digital fixed-line network in most major urban areas and good mobile coverage

Gibtel was subsequently granted a licence to offer mobile telephony introducing a GSM900 network.

After the Córdoba Agreement, Gibtel ( Gibtelecom's mobile service ) could roam on Spanish network Movistar ( Telefonica ).

Gibraltar Telecommunications International Limited ( Gibtel ) introduced mobile phones to Gibraltar with a GSM900 network.

The new GPRS network installed by the Scandinavian company allows faster and permanent connectivity for all mobile users, as well as providing high-speed picture and video messaging for owners of the new range of multi-purpose hand-sets.

Also that year, Telecom Australia became the first network operator to deploy a GSM network outside Europe and the first practical hand-held GSM mobile phone became available.

The GPRS core network allows 2G, 3G and WCDMA mobile networks to transmit IP packets to external networks such as the Internet.

A DTM-capable mobile may use simultaneous voice and packet data, with the network coordinating to ensure that it is not required to transmit on two different frequencies at the same time.

On 8 August 2008, IKEA UK launched Family Mobile, a virtual mobile phone network, running on T-Mobile.

The Romans made use of fired bricks, and the Roman legions, which operated mobile kilns, introduced bricks to many parts of the empire.

In December 2008, a mobile phone service was launched in Pyongyang, operated by Egyptian company Orascom, with current plans to expand coverage to all parts of the country.

A PLMN is a network that is established and operated by an administration or by a recognized operating agency ( ROA ) for the specific purpose of providing land mobile telecommunications services to the public.

PLMN is network that is established and operated by an administration or by a recognized operating agency ( ROA ) for the specific purpose of providing land mobile telecommunications services to the public.

The telephone system in Andorra, including mobile, data and Internet is operated exclusively by the Andorran national telecommunications company, Andorra Telecom, formerly known as Servei de Telecomunicacions d ' Andorra ( STA ), which operates with the brand SOM.

* Autoradiopuhelin (" car radio phone "), in Finland, the first commercially operated public mobile phone network

This device combined the a PDA with a mobile phone and operated on the Verizon Wireless network.

Mobile payment, also referred to as mobile money, mobile money transfer, and mobile wallet generally refer to payment services operated under financial regulation and performed from or via a mobile device.

* iAd, a mobile advertising service operated by Apple Inc.

One such example application is Alabama Freedom Pass mobile, used to link customer accounts at sites operated by American Roads LLC.

In the UK, a voluntary charter operated by the mobile networks ensures that any operator's blacklisting of a handset is communicated to the Central Equipment Identity Register ( CEIR ) and subsequently to all other networks.

Telecom originally operated a TDMA ( AMPS, Digital D-AMPS / TDMA ) mobile network ; this was superseded by its CDMA network.

No mobile phone s are permitted in designated " quiet carriages " such as this one on a train operated by First Great Western in the UK.

Started as a wireless paging and GSM mobile operator, it currently provides a wide range of services including nationwide GSM mobile network, long-distance, local calling, data communication, Internet services and IP telephony in mainland China, and has operated a CDMA network in Macau since 18 October 2006.

BellSouth Mobility DCS was a mobile phone network operated by the American landline telephone company BellSouth.

The Knox library has operated a mobile library service for The Basin since 1985.

In 1944, a mobile library operated from a private home for the Flinders Shire by Wally Turner.

One. Tel initially operated largely as a reseller of Optus services, receiving $ 120 for each mobile telephone customer that it attracted.

Used with either an AC or DC external power supply, they could be operated in fixed or mobile service.

By 2006, 90 percent of the telephone lines in Mexico are operated by Telmex, whilst his mobile telephony company, Telcel, operates almost eighty percent of all the country's cellphones.