Last night the UK cellular industry gathered in London’s Science Museum to mark twenty-five years of mobile networks in the UK.  It was an event that drew together many of the people who have been responsible for the extraordinary explosion of the mobile industry, talking about the history of how it happened, and looking into their crystal balls to try and predict the direction of the next twenty-five years.

It has been an extraordinary journey.  I missed the first five years, but have been involved for the last twenty, predominantly trying to encourage data applications and moving services past the phone to internet connected devices.  That’s not been the most successful area of the industry, although I believe its time is about to come.  What last night proved was how radically the growth of the mobile industry has changed our lives. Continued…