It’s something most of us do every day, but Elmhurst businessman David Meilhan did it before anybody else. Back on Oct. 13, 1983, in the parking lot of Soldier Field, he made the first ever commercial ...

There are more than 300 million cellphone customers in the U.S. David Meilahn, a suburban Chicago insurance agent, was the first. In a Soldier Field parking lot, 40 years ago Friday, Meilahn bested 13 ...

Elizabeth French was crying when she turned and directly addressed Eric Morgan, a 25-year-old man who on Thursday admitted to his role in the shooting death of her daughter, Chicago Officer Ella ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. David Meilahn, a suburban Chicago insurance ...

On Oct. 13, the world celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first commercial cell phone call from Soldier Field in Chicago to somewhere in Germany. That was 1983, just after I had finished graduate ...

When the idea of the cellular telephone was first introduced it was met with skepticism – most people didn’t believe that it was necessary. People were content with their land-line phones and when the ...

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ("AST SpaceMobile") (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular ...

After announcing a strategic partnership last year, the two companies solidify their relationship with a commercial agreement ...