George Fierheller, the first CEO of Cantel Communciations, fires up his cell phone for a conversation back in 1985. He is standing in the doorway of the company’s headquarters at 40 Eglinton Ave. E. Cantel was later to be known as Rogers Wireless. The first cell phone service was introduced in Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton and Oshawa on Canada Day that year. This small beginning would soon become the world’s longest contiguous cellular network (Windsor through Quebec City) only a short time later, and the wireless network we know today. CBC report below is fun.
