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Compiled in or after 1999 · records 1992 approvals

First GSM Mobiles to Be Type-Approved

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Networks were ready before approved GSM handsets were available to their customers. This register helps trace the eventual arrival of those phones, listing manufacturers, models and approval dates. Its introductory note credits Les Rowlands of BABT and explains that the table was compiled from GSMA allocation spreadsheets issued in 1999. It is therefore a later record of the early approvals, not a sheet produced in 1992. The closing note identifies BABT’s first GSM handset approval as 26 May 1992 for the Orbitel series. That distinction matters: the table is useful historical evidence, while its own account tells us how and when the evidence was assembled.

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