If you are in business you’ll know how important it is to have the most up to date telephone systems and business mobiles for your staff who work away from the office. This is something we tend to take for granted these days, but when you think about it, it’s not that long ago that the mobile phone was regarded as a status symbol purely for those who worked in the city – a piece of equipment that was only affordable for the relatively well off.

The first call from a mobile phone in Britain took place in 1985 when the comedian Ernie Wise was used by a company to generate publicity for this new generation of business telephone systems, and while this is seen as a major step in the development of the mobile phone, the system and the handsets used were crude compared to the hi-tech business mobiles we use today.

Most of us will be able to remember those early mobile phones. They were the size of a small brick, and not much lighter but for those who were using them they were seen as a useful tool. This first generation of phones could be regarded as nothing more than business phone systems as the only people who used them did so for work purposes.

Fast forward ten years, and we were beginning to see smaller, lighter, and less expensive business phone systems in the mobile market. Nowadays it is hard to imagine life without the mobile phone, as more than 90 per cent of the population of Britain owns one.

The first call from a mobile phone in Britain took place in 1985 when the comedian Ernie Wise was used by a company to generate publicity for this new generation of business telephone systems, and while this is seen as a major step in the development of the mobile phone, the system and the handsets used were crude compared to the hi-tech business mobiles we use today.

Most of us will be able to remember those early mobile phones. They were the size of a small brick, and not much lighter but for those who were using them they were seen as a useful tool. This first generation of phones could be regarded as nothing more than business phone systems as the only people who used them did so for work purposes.

Fast forward ten years, and we were beginning to see smaller, lighter, and less expensive business phone systems in the mobile market. Nowadays it is hard to imagine life without the mobile phone, as more than 90 per cent of the population of Britain owns one.