Sometimes it appears that mobile phones have been with us always, yet in 1988 the arrival of a cellular phone network in Darwin was big news.

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Talent: Ray Nugent, Mobiltronics

To air: ABC-TV News, 21 January 1988, Duration: 01:26

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