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OUR STORY

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MobileCorp has a 30-year history spanning the birth of the mobile phone, the arrival of the smartphone, through to today’s hyper-connected world.

From humble retail store to enterprise MSP

MobileCorp’s story begins in 1991 as a humble retail shop on the corner of Botany and Gardeners Roads, in the Sydney suburb of Mascot. When an ambitious 22-year old, George Aravopoulos, flung open the doors of the former Bank of New South Wales building, his was the first mobile phone shop on Botany Road. Within ten years there would be 16 mobile phone retailers on the 10km strip stretching from Redfern to Port Botany; and then within ten more years his shop would be the last one standing.

The early years: when car phones and Nokia ruled

Opening the shop was a bold move for the young George, who had come out of an apprenticeship installing car phones into luxury vehicles. “In those days there was no such thing as a hand-held device, and the first mobile network was the 007, which is the equivalent of a zeroG. Car phones were called mobile phones, but they were actually wired into the vehicle. Owners of luxury cars loved the idea of a car phone but then I would turn up with a transceiver weighing 25-30kg that had to be fitted to the vehicle and they would say ‘you’re not putting that in my Porsche, Mercedes, Rolls Royce’.”