Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are more than 300 million cellphone customers in the U.S. David Meilahn, a suburban Chicago insurance agent, was the first.

Elizabeth French was crying when she turned and directly addressed Eric Morgan, a 25-year-old man who on Thursday admitted to his role in the shooting death of her daughter, Chicago Officer Ella ...

Forty years ago, the first first commercial cellular call was made after the FCC approved AT&T’s mobile cellular network. Stu Tartarone was one of the people who developed the technology that led to ...

On Oct. 13, the world celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first commercial cell phone call from Soldier Field in Chicago to somewhere in Germany. That was 1983, just after I had finished graduate ...

There are more than 300 million cellphone customers in the U.S. David Meilahn, a suburban Chicago insurance agent, was the first. In a Soldier Field parking lot, 40 years ago Friday, Meilahn bested 13 ...