First Wireless

Tracfone, prepaid, analog Nokia 918 (2000).
First postpaid VZW, tri-mode Nokia 3285 (2002).

 

my first was

US Cellular Nokia 5100 Postpaid

 

Date: 1999 or 2000??
Location: DC area
Provider: Cellular One
Phone: TDMA Motorola StarTac 7791? (unsure of exact model #)

 

1997, Sprint PCS, I forget the model #, but it was that Sony that had the slide up ear piece.

 

1995, Airtouch, Motorola Microtac

 

D2 PRIVAT(now Vodafone) in Germany in the 90's.
My Dad used to have a C-Netz car phone and back phone in the very early 90's in Germany, then switched do D2 as well.

 

BellSouth Mobility in Memphis, late 1996. It was an Ericsson candybar phone with TDMA and AMPS, green backlit LED; can't remember the model number. I ended up taking that phone with me to Oxford and RCC; it eventually crapped out on me in 2000 or so.

My mom had a Oki 900 (I think) before that, also from BellSouth Mobility; it was AMPS only. Compared to it, my Ericcson seemed compact and hip.

 

My first wireless was Voicestream prepaid with the Motorola V2282 (2000); My 1st postpaid service was SprintPCS with the Samsung N240 (2002)(I think...it was a small silver and blue bar-style phone that flipped out at the bottom)

 

Omnipoint 1998. Jamie Lee Curtis made a convincing argument.

 

In Memphis, in 1996 on GTE Wireless using a used Motorola 8000 Classic (the full size handset, with red seven segment LEDs).

COtech

 

Manhattan, Kansas
December 2002
CellularONE (Western Wireless) TDMA
Motorola v2397

 

Bag phone GTE early 90's

 

That's my answer, too.
Then we were switched to Sprint PCS
When we found we couldn't make a call in downtown Washington DC,
we switched to AT&T prepay, then to CallPlus prepay, then Beyond Wireless prepay.
As TDMA died, we switched to Verizon (family plan); couldn't be happier.

Lena

 

1989 with L.A. Cellular (ATT -> Cingular), Motorola 8900!!!

 

1996-1997 air touch and I had a Motorola Microtac not a bad phone for the time my plan was was expensive though I paid .10 a minute for usage

 

Las Vegas 2000
Nevada Bell (Cingular)
Motorola ????

 

May 1997 Airtouch (they were still new in Iowa)
I had friends with US West Cellular back in 1995
Grandma was the first in the family to have wireless service it was with US West Cellular in 1994.
I think there was a classmate or two with US Cellular my senoir year.

 

1994 - Wichita, Kansas - Southwestern Bell Mobility

Had a bag phone. Had that for 1 year and then went with Cellularone ( Still here)

 

Motorola v120e with ALLTEL post paid in 2003, a month before I turned 15.

 

A bag phone (Motorola?) back in 1994. This was with Century Tel in northern Louisiana.

 

OKI 900 on GTE Mobilenet (now Verizon) in 1992. The next year, I activated the same phone on NAM 2 on Korea Mobile Telecom (now SK Telecom).

 

1994, CellOne/Contel (now VZW) postpaid, Chattanooga TN area, NEC P110.

-SC

 

maybe 1999? not sure.. but I had an Audiovox CDM-135 on US Cellular.

 

Date: Late 1998 to early 2000
Location: Kingsport, TN
Provider: BellSouth Mobility DCS (now Cingular Wireless)
Phone: Nortel 1930 (I think that was the model number, not 100% sure though). It was a GSM only phone that operated on the PCS frequency.

 

A GE Ericsson analog phone on CellularOne (now Cingular), 1995.

 

2002, Phoenix:
Nokia 5170i (CDMA) through Cricket

2002/3, First Contracted Phone:
Samsung SCH-N150 through Verizon (Phoenix & MA)

 

NO WONDER YOU ARE NOT AN ALLTEL FAN!!! That phone sucked lol

 

Oh man....ATT Wireless right after they bought Cellular One here in the mid 90's??
Phone was a Mitsubishi AH4500 analog....still have it. lol

 

1994. ATT. Ericsson. Their first digital model.
Looked like a black brick (and felt like it too) with huge antenna.

Almost but not quite as bad as current satellite phones:
http://www.adventure4wd.com.au/going_bush/images/motorola_phone.jpg