History--Western Union's cellular service, 1984 [telecom]

In 1984, the Western Union Telegraph Company got into the cellular mobile phone business. Below is a link to an ad they ran in "New York" magazine.

Unfortunately, at that time W/U was losing serious money in various ventures. They were forced to sell off their bandwidth. Had they been able to keep it a few more years, it would've been very valuable.

read more and respond »

Posted 5 years ago by HAncock4 in General Telecommunications Forum

Report misuse