Category:Z1580

Summary
The Z1580 (1965) was the world's first crude cell phone. More of a satelite phone, the Z1580 bounced signals of the Sperchen satelite to the other phone in order to make a call. It was intended to remain in the hands of UGS citizens, but 300 phones were smuggled out of UGS to Canada in 1967. In 1968, the Sperchen Satelite was disabled by the President to prevent Candians from using the Z1580. When Sperchen was disabled, the Z1580 become useless.

Features
The Z1580 gave the caller the ability to make telephone calls from a battery operated phone. the Z1580 could make calls to any other Z1580.

Downsides
Since the Z1580 could not call land lines, it required both callers to have one. The Sperchen satelite was built to handle only governmental communications, so when the civillian market was allowed to use it, they were forced to restricted phones to UGS only to avoid flooding the network.