Excel mobile phones

Technophone was commissioned by the controlling shareholder of Millicom, Jan Stenbeck for Vodafone and his Swedish cellular firm, Comvik.

DTI sought insight into how the mobile could change from an expensive professional electronics item only affordable by industry executives and millionaires to a mass consumer product.

It led the DTI to create the conditions for the personal communications network transformation in the seminal consultation document "Phones on the Move".

[3] The phone cost around £2500 when first launched and some owners were Terence Trent Darby, David Steel, Joan Collins and Jonathon Morris from the popular Liverpool-based TV show Bread.

Excell Communications was started by Cheshire-based entrepreneurs, and the company later handed over management Michael Goldstone.