Before cell phones, pagers were the way to communicate on the go. At first, they were almost a status symbol. Eventually, they became the mark of someone who couldn’t or wouldn’t carry a cell ...
Song went on to share that she didn't get a cell phone until she was 16 years old. She did have a two-way pager that she bought at the urging of her Get a Clue costar, Lindsay Loh ...
Pagers were widely used in the 1980s, before mobile phones and two-way SMS text messages became more popular. Vodafone ended its national pager service in March 2018. Capita's PageOne is the last ...
By 1996, Tokyo Telemessage had 1.2 million subscribers. However, the rise of mobile phones rendered the pager obsolete, and few remain worldwide. Emergency services, however, continue to use the ...
The exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people and injured 2 800 others in Lebanon and adjacent places on Tuesday were mostly just a new wrinkle on the exploding cell-phones that Israel has ...