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Controlled and connected: 50 years of the cell phone

The Documentary Podcast

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The Rise and Fall of the Cell Phone

Justice in Ghana remembers what life was like before the cell phone. "If he wanted to speak with us, we had to go and queue and wait at the telecom center," she says. In the 1980s, mobile phones did exist, but it was often the preserve of very rich men or women.

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