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No More Beeps: NTT to Kill the Pager

Filed in archive Device Evolution by Scott on March 22, 2007

No More Beeps: NTT to Kill the Pager
Yomuiri Shimbun reports today that NTT DoCoMo will cease offering pagers this month after 40 years in the beeper business. Having launched the technology way back in 1968, NTT says there are only just under half a million subscribers remaining, down from a peak of 10 million in the mid 1990s.

Before the advent of affordable mobile phones, pagers reached cult status among young Japanese, who used the devices to organize meetups and send coded messages to one another, often late at night.

Those interested should grab a copy of Mimi Ito's terrific work on Japanese mobile culture, Personal, Portable, Pedestrian for a short history of pagers in Japan's recent pop culture.


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