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Mobile phone retailers celebrate historic 1st mobile phone call between then Telecom minister Sukh Ram, former Bengal CM Jyoti Basu with postal stamp

Kolkata, July 31 (UNI) The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) today celebrated the historic first mobile phone call in India between then Telecom minister Sukh Ram and West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu with the launch of a Commemorative Postal Stamp.
Exactly 30 years ago on this day in 1995, then Union Telecom minister Sukh Ram in New Delhi received the first cell phone call from Marxist leader Jyoti Basu from his official chamber Writers Buildings in Kolkata.
"On 31st July 1995, West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu made the first-ever mobile call to the then Telecom Minister Sukh Ram using a Nokia handset on Modi Telstra’s network," the AIMRA members recalled the historic moment while celebrating the existence of three decades of mobile phone industry in India.
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