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Tokyo TeleMessage (Tokyo テレメッセージ)
announced that it will officially stop all pager business starting from September next year. The pager user
and Tokyo TeleMessage is their only operator
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, there may be many 90,00s who will be wondering what
is this pager?
pager is also called BP machine.
is the abbreviation of English bepper.
is also called BBCALL in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He was born in the 1960s and prospered in the 80s and 90s.
was the most popular instant messaging tool before the birth of mobile phones,
Back then, the BP machine was a bit like the original Iphone
. It was basically a social person with a face and a face,
, a pager auspicious number, which could sell for a lot of money.
In the movie "Riding the Wind and Waves", "Little Horse" was almost fooled. Pager
There are few keys on the pager
on the touch screen. How did
"chat" in the age of invention? The earliest pager of
can only send a string of numbers ,
, in addition to the caller number
used to inform the other party, more people use the pager as a "cipher machine" to use
, for example,
. Express the meaning
[0840] means good morning (おはよう)
[14106] means I love you (爱してる)
Later with the technology upgrade, the character 2z
can even be sent directly from the pager, even the emoticon package 9zzzz9 Functionally speaking, it is not much different from the current mobile phone text messages.
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pager was invented by American Bell Labs as early as 1958.
was invented in the tenth year after the pager was invented.
was launched by Japan Telecom and Telephone Corporation (NTT predecessor)
In Japan’s first pager, Pocket Bell
, when there are only fixed telephones,
pagers are undoubtedly an epoch-making communication tool
. Office workers will no longer be unable to receive calls from customers because they are out of office,
, a contracted user of pagers. Z2z
Since the end of the 1980s,
has become a mess in Japan because the law allows the purchase of pagers in the name of individuals.
.
. You can buy pagers at stations and convenience stores.
. The Tokyo TeleMessage
mentioned earlier by the less telecommunications service provider
was the
that entered the pager market in 1986. Z2z
pagers were the big bosses, and big sales were worthy of the "symbol"
. But in the 1990s, It has become the "magic weapon" of high school girls
Ryoko Hirosue was the spokesperson of the docomo pager. The
pager became popular among female high school students. In addition to the low prices caused by operator competition, the most important thing about
is that it is the most suitable. Take for example "Whispering "
The pager at the time has evolved to be able to express love. Z2z
plus the "cryptoword"
that originally needed to be represented by numbers is in line with the little ambiguousness of young boys and girls at the beginning of love
pager became
in that era It is a truth that students "'s most wanted birthday gift "
can receive a pager
from their parents and now receive a new version of the emperor iphone
Hirosue Ryoko back then, a CM said that Ryoko received his birthday. The first time after the gift, I went to the public phone to send a message to myself
because we have to consider the needs of young consumers. The appearance of
is not all black
. Various color schemes and appearances emerge in an endless stream. There are even watch models
. Watch pager
in the 1980s and 1990s was when pagers were the hottest in Japan. At that time,
went up to the boss, and down to the students. Almost one was handed
. According to statistics, there were 10.61 million users in 1995.
accounted for the total population of Japan at that time. Nearly 10%
because the pager had to rely on fixed phones to "send messages"
There were so many broken public phones on the streets of Tokyo that they could not be repaired at one time. From the ages, the emergence of the big mobile phone
made the existence of pagers seem a little superfluous.
With the large-scale popularization of mobile phone text messages in the millennium,
made pagers completely obsolete and old
. I should all remember that
, Nokia rises, and Apple.
Communications has entered the era of smartphones. There are fewer and fewer users of
pagers.
ended up in a state where no one cares about
. Use it.”
is used by fewer people, which does not mean that no one uses
because the pager itself does not generate electromagnetic waves
will not affect precision medical equipment
and can be used in the event of an earthquake, tsunami and other disasters,
does not rely on dense communication base stations and Wired lines to transmit information over long distances
Currently, about 1,500 pager users in Japan
are almost all from Tokyo medical, rescue , etc. Domain professionals
, although this group of customers are not wealthy owners
, they are also an important role related to social security and stability
in order to provide these customers with normal services
20 years after its last pager pager was discontinued.
Tokyo TeleMessage is still struggling to persist in the pager service
unknowingly becomes the pager market " the last hope "
The last 1500 users almost "raise"
even though loses 7000-8000 per year Ten thousand yen
The company still clenched its teeth for several years
December 3, Tokyo TeleMessage website issued a notice
informed that due to business considerations, the pager service will be stopped from September next year
and thanked the old customers for decades of support and love
Tokyo TeleMessage’s notice on the official website
"It has been 20 years since the pager was discontinued. I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to the users who have been using the products and services of the company"
" Thank you for your long-term loveFortunately, we can find new fields and develop business in addition to the wireless outbound business. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks again for this! In this not-so-long business notice, the word
mentioned the most is "thank you"
. The "new field" mentioned in the apology article actually refers to " disaster prevention broadcast "
according to media reports
Tokyo TeleMessage will use the remaining equipment of the pager
to promote and improve the disaster emergency communication service in the Kanto region. In the 50th year, the
pager will finally turn into the tears of the times
has become a chapter in history
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