The plummeting cost of mobile technology to the point of free

The very first mobile phones were rare, unreliable and very expensive. Few people could afford a portable phone as they were called then and fewer still could afford to use them. Mobile technology seemed like it was going nowhere for a while, clumsy, clunky and heavy as a load of bricks (not just one brick) pagers were making better progress. A simple phone call sent to a device that displayed a short message to call someone was the way things were and even bleepers and pagers were trendy. Phones were not quite there because they were expensive and costly to use.

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