Five figures to understand the evolution of the telephony market, 50 years after the first call

That was exactly fifty years ago. On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, made the first call from a mobile phone. He then had in his hands – it took two, given its weight of 1 kg – the DynaTAC model, with a range of twenty-five minutes and marketed at some 5,000 dollars. The telephone will then take time to democratize. It will be only ten years later that Motorola, still him, will market the first telephone, the DynaTAC 8000X, for 3995 dollars. The device still measured 33 cm and weighed 794 g. The first SMS will be sent on December 3, 1992 and seven years later, the Nokia 7110 opened the way to mobile Internet, thanks to WAP technology. The iPhone will appear in 2007, three years following the launch of 3G in Switzerland.