SIR DAVID Brown worked for STC, ICL and Northern Telecom before joining Motorola in 1991 and rising to be its chairman. He's been deeply involved throughout the development of the UK's cellular networks, as everything from an equipment supplier to a member of Ofcom's spectrum advisory board. "I'm 59 years old and have been a telecommunications engineer since I graduated, but the 25 years since the launch of cellular in the UK have flashed by. "When I got into telecommunications, there were still queues outside telephone boxes and when you picked up the receiver you waited for a dial tone before you could dial. It just shows how available telecommunications services were back in the 1960s and 1970s.
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