30 years since India’s first mobile phone call: With eyes on future, country aims to lead 6G
It’s astonishing to imagine that just three decades ago, in July 1995, mobile phones were a distant dream for most Indians. The telecom landscape changed forever on July 31 that year, when West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu dialed Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram to make the country’s very first mobile call, using a Nokia handset on the Modi Telstra network which operated on Nokia supplied telecom equipment. That simple moment marked the beginning of what would become a remarkable saga of technological transformation, reshaping how people live, work and communicate.
