Pager services to end Tues. in Japan after 50 years english.kyodonews.net

KYODO NEWS - 37 minutes ago - 15:04 | All, JapanJapan's sole pager provider will end its services Tuesday, with the device, first introduced in the country half a century ago, made redundant by mobile phones.
Tokyo Telemessage Inc. will shut down radio signals for its services from around midnight Monday through Tuesday.
Initially, the services were often used by companies in communicating with sales staff who were out of the office.
The number of pager users further decreased as e-mailing, texting as well as taking and sending pictures by phone became standard.
NTT Docomo Inc., mobile unit of NTT, terminated its nationwide pager service in 2007, while Tokyo Telemessage continued to provide its services to Tokyo and neighboring Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures.