According to Japan’s Daily Yomiuri, NTT DoCoMo is at last turning off its pagers and consigning them to 20th century memory. Somewhere fuzzy. A few interesting facts are related in the Yomiuri’s article: NTT launched its pager services way back in 1968 (before any of us were born); there were more than 10 million pager subscribers in mid-90s Japan; and, at the last count, NTT’s ‘pager pals’ had dwindled to just 140,000. Remarkably, it isn’t quite a case of GAME OVER, 0 CONTINUES — Yozan Inc. will continue to offer its pager services in the Tokyo area, while Okinawa Telemessage Inc. will preserve pager nostalgia in Japan’s beautiful southern islands.
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