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Mobile memories – in celebration of 25 years of hand-held phones
Author: Stef Nowak.
It’s hard to believe it has been 25 years since the launch of the first hand-held mobile phone. Whereas today I wouldn’t dream of leaving home without my trusty handset in my pocket, I recall 25 years ago when I was a trainee technician in the Mornington Peninsula, and we first launched the ‘Walkabout’ things were very different……
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Aspiring Dj Charlie Munns Visits The Telstra Museum
Author: Stef Nowak.
When 10 year old Charlie Munns of Revesby Heights grows up he’d like to start a career in Radio. Young Charlie is pictured here at the working ex-ABC announcers’ console on display in the Telstra Museum at Bankstown with his mother Julie-Anne, his grandmother, and his volunteer Ralph McIlwraith and Museum manager Brian Mullins.
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Telstra Museum virtual tour
Author: Stef Nowak.
This week marks 30 years since the first phone call was made on Australia’s very first public mobile network – built by Telstra (or Telecom, as we were known back then).
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