the nostalgy thread | all about the early days of mobile telephony

inquisitor · 26-08-2009, 21:04

The only 900/1900-phones I remeber are the Ericsson I888 and the Ericsson T28 world. That combination was rather rare, I think Nokia didn't produce phones with that at all.
For transatlantic travellers cellcos usually offered phone rentals. When I travelled to NYC in 1997 I rented a Nokia 2190 from D2 mannesmann (today Vodafone Germany), which costed me DM 100,- (~ $50) for 4 weeks. Luckily they had some billing problem and my calls were never charged on my account.

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	26-08-2009, 21:04 The only 900/1900-phones I remeber are the Ericsson I888 and the Ericsson T28 world. That combination was rather rare, I think Nokia didn't produce phones with that at all. For transatlantic travellers cellcos usually offered phone rentals. When I travelled to NYC in 1997 I rented a Nokia 2190 from D2 mannesmann (today Vodafone Germany), which costed me DM 100,- (~ $50) for 4 weeks. Luckily they had some billing problem and my calls were never charged on my account. terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com