The first British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone" id="mwAsU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mobile phone">mobile phone</a> call is made by Michael Harrison to his father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Harrison" id="mwAsY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ernest Harrison">Sir Ernest Harrison</a>, chairman of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone" id="mwAsc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vodafone">Vodafone</a>.<sup about="#mwt445" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-87"}}' id="cite_ref-87" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-87" id="mwAsg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 87;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAsk">[87]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-87"><cite about="#mwt442" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFNeate2014">Neate, Rupert (31 December 2014). <a class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/31/new-years-eve-mobile-phone-call-made-history" id="mwD_8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"New Year's Day mobile phone call made history and started a new era"</a>. <i id="mwEAA">The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwEAE">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwEAI">25 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt442" class="Z3988" id="mwEAM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&amp;rft.atitle=New+Year%27s+Day+mobile+phone+call+made+history+and+started+a+new+era&amp;rft.date=2014-12-31&amp;rft.aulast=Neate&amp;rft.aufirst=Rupert&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbusiness%2F2014%2Fdec%2F31%2Fnew-years-eve-mobile-phone-call-made-history&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>