12-06-2018, 01:24 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46448819
Japan's last pager provider has announced it will end its service in September 2019 - bringing a national end to telecommunication beepers, 50 years after their introduction.
Around 1,500 users remain subscribed to Tokyo Telemessage, which has not made the devices in 20 years.
Hospital workers favour them as they do not emit electromagnetic waves, the Japan Times reports.
The once-popular devices are able to receive and show wireless messages.
Users would then find a phone to call the sender back.
Yes, you read that right: some of these archaic devices are still being used to this day!
I had heard before that hospitals were some of the last places still using them. I wonder what they'll move onto instead?
Japan's last pager provider has announced it will end its service in September 2019 - bringing a national end to telecommunication beepers, 50 years after their introduction.
Around 1,500 users remain subscribed to Tokyo Telemessage, which has not made the devices in 20 years.
Hospital workers favour them as they do not emit electromagnetic waves, the Japan Times reports.
The once-popular devices are able to receive and show wireless messages.
Users would then find a phone to call the sender back.
Yes, you read that right: some of these archaic devices are still being used to this day!
I had heard before that hospitals were some of the last places still using them. I wonder what they'll move onto instead?
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