Re:21 years? (Score 1)

The analog NMT-450 net opened in Denmark in 1982. In 1985 portable phones, as opposed to phones intended for mounting in vehicles, were legalized. But until phones like the Storno Portable http://www.stornotime.dk/images/StornoData/storno- portable-b.jpg were introduced (at about the same time that the NMT-900 net opened in Denmark in January 1987), antennas probably tended not to be positioned right next to the user's head...