India gets its first cell phone - Jyoti Basu makes India's first cell-phone call to Sukh Ram, Mr. M

The then Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram and the then Chief Minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu speak to each other using handheld mobile phones on July 31, 1995. Mr. Modi, Chairman of the Smart Group, is in attendance.

The call made in July 1995, between Writer's Building in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Sanchar Bhavan in New Delhi was carried over Modi Telstra's MobileNet service. That cellular call inaugurated MobileNet service in Calcutta.

Modi Telstra was a joint venture between India's Modi Group and Australian telecom giant Telstra. The company was one of the eight companies licensed to provide cellular services in India. Two licences were awarded each for the four metropolitan cities.

Telecommunications in India has come a long way since 1995. At the end of May 2015, the total number of telephone connections in the country crossed the one billion mark. Of the billion phone connections, an overwhelming 975.78 million connections were wireless or mobile.

Source : NDTV

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