This month Vodafone is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Britain's first-ever mobile phone call which was made on the newly-launched Vodafone UK network on 1 January 1985. This historic call was made on one of the first ever mobile devices, a Transportable Vodafone VT1, which weighed around 5kg.

Thirty years later, Vodafone is an industry leader with over 438 million customers globally, mobile operations in 26 countries and fixed broadband operations in 17 countries.

Vodafone Malta, which was set up in 1989 as Vodafone's very first overseas venture, has also been responsible for all the major 'firsts' in the development of the telecommunications sector in Malta. The first ever mobile call in Malta was in fact made on the Vodafone network in 1990. It is also the first Maltese mobile service provider to offer its customers a 4G network and has been steadily rolling out this network over the past year.