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Mobal Communications is a telecommunications company that provides international cell phone and satellite phone service. The United Kingdom and Japan divisions are named Mobell Communications. Mobal also operates a US domestic service named Mobal Freedom. The company was founded by current chairman Tony Smith.
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History
Mobal (under the name Mobell) was created in the mid 1980s from a UK company called Torrent. Torrent was an industrial tool rental company serving the construction industry. When cellular phones first became commercially available Mobal started renting these to construction companies to use on work sites.
The company subsequently sold off the tool rental business, and form a new company solely renting cell phones. This new company was called Mobell.
Different cellphone transmission technologies, including GSM, CDMA and D-AMPS wrre mutually incompatible when people used their cell phones while travelling, so Mobell started to specialize in providing cell phone rental for international travelers visiting countries where their own cell phones would not work.
Mobell expanded with a branch in New York, called Mobal Communications, as well as a branch in Tokyo.
In July 2008 Mobal Japan opened up a counter in Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, aimed at business travellers and tourists.
The company later added satellite phones, aimed at travelers to remote locations or in disaster zones, including journalists and reporters.
Mobal subsequently launched a no contract cell phone service in the United States.