The heyday of the pager is long since over, but the devices themselves have continued to be used for specialized purposes like search-and-rescue teams and emergency workers. In Japan, however, the ...

After nearly five decades, Japan is finally ending pagers for good. The last service provider in the country, Tokyo Telemessage, announced that it will terminate its service in September 2019, ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Screenshot: 葬儀葬式ch有限会社佐藤葬祭 Remember pagers? Maybe not! If you were around in the 1990s, you might’ve carried a pager in case someone wanted to get in ...

In brief: Those of a certain age who hold nostalgic memories for obsolete technology might feel a tug of the heart strings reading this story: over in Japan, the country's last pager service provider ...