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AT&T experimented with a mobile phone service in the late 1940s but this was limited by infrastructure and channel availability. How far might this progress with the advent of transistors if the company were sufficiently motivated? What might change in the 1960s or 1970s if car-based or primitive hand-held telephones were widespread?