Wayne Schelle, who ran one of the first experimental trials of cellular in the U.S. and is considered a wireless pioneer, is to be remembered Friday with visitation at the Ruck Towson Funeral Home and a memorial service Saturday at…
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the Church of the Good Shepherd, both in Towson, Maryland. In 1980, Schelle, who died Tuesday, got an experimental license from the FCC for the launch of cellular service in the Baltimore/Washington market, said Jonathan Blake, Schelle’s longtime friend, now retired from Covington & Burling. Four years later, the network was one of only two experimental cellular systems in the nation.