Poketto Beru (ポケットベル - Pager/Beeper) Part 2

Poketto Beru Part 2

In my post yesterday, I wrote that 'poketto beru' (ポケットベル - "pager/beeper") has followed a course of decline.

In fact, the telecommunication service for personal use will be terminated in September 2019, though the radio waves for 'poketto beru' will continue to be used in the community wireless system for disaster prevention.

Incidentally, 'poketto beru' could send and receive characters such as alphabets and Katakana in the mid-1990s, but before that, it supported only digits.

Because of this, various messages by combining several digits became popular.

I will try to introduce those digit messages tomorrow.

ポケットベル Part 2

昨日、ポケットベル（英語では "pager" や "beeper"）は衰退の一途を辿っていると書きました。

実際、今年の9月に個人向けのサービスは終了しますが、今後ポケットベルの電波は防災無線用として使われ続けていくようです。

ちなみに、ポケットベルは1990年代半ばにアルファベットやカタカナなど文字の送受信が可能になりましたが、それ以前は数字のみに対応していました。

このため、数字の語呂合わせによるさまざまなメッセージの送受信が流行していました。

明日からはそれらの例を紹介していこうと思います。

• In my post yesterday, I wrote that 'poketto beru' (ポケットベル - "pager/beeper") has followed a course of decline.
• In my post yesterday, I wrote that (the sales of/ the use of) 'poketto beru' (ポケットベル - "pager/beeper") has followed a course of decline.

• In fact, the telecommunication service for personal use will be terminated in September 2019, though the radio waves for 'poketto beru' will continue to be used in the community wireless system for disaster prevention.
• In fact, the telecommunication service for personal use of pagers will be terminated in September 2019, although the radio waves for 'poketto beru' will continue to be used in the community wireless system for disaster prevention.