Nordic Mobile Telephone

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The Nordic Mobile Telephone (Nordisk MobilTelefoni or Nordiska MobilTelefoni-gruppen, abbreviated NMT ) is a mobile telephone system from Scandinavia. Planning began in 1970 and operations in 1981 . It was the successor to the analog, hand-switched radio telephone systems of the 1st generation: ARP (150 MHz) in Finland and MTD (450 MHz) in Sweden , Norway and Denmark . NMT is an analog system and was started as NMT-450. In 1986 NMT-900 was added. It offers more channels than NMT-450. Today the system is still in use in Russia . In Switzerland, this system was as Natel C respectively. In Austria, the system was in operation as a C network from 1984 to 1997. Iceland shut down its system a few years ago. In return, the GSM coverage has also been improved in remote locations.