The last BB company in Japan stopped serving. What exactly does BB mean?

With the arrival of September 30th, 20 19, the last BB operating company in Japan stopped its business and withdrew from the historical stage. BB is also an instant messaging service, also known as a pager. As long as you send a signal and can receive it, you can find someone without looking all over the street. This was a very advanced communication tool at that time.

Before the mobile phone appeared, it was also a means of communication. At that time, the fixed telephone was popular, and the fixed telephone could not move, so it was still difficult to meet people's instant messaging requirements. The appearance of pagers changed this situation. When people can't get a call, they can know who is calling themselves and who is looking for them. When they see the news, they can immediately reply to each other's message or phone call by using the fixed telephone. Although it's not as convenient as a touch-screen phone, you don't have to look for people all over the street. You can be found all over the world with a pager in your hand.

At that time, there was a buzzword "Call me if you need anything". Some people pin it on their waists on purpose. I feel very powerful when I hear someone calling me. Some people like to show off, deliberately turn up the sound very loudly and pretend not to hear the prompt. There was a pager on the waist at that time, which was very beautiful and fashionable. With the emergence of mobile phones, pagers will inevitably be eliminated and abandoned by people.

In the late 1980s, China began to appear. With the progress of technology and the increase of social demand, after 1990, paging and service broke out all over the country. The paging market is booming, and the competition between paging stations is becoming increasingly fierce, and fierce competition has also been launched among paging services. At that time, the service fee was still very high, the internet fee was 100 yuan, the digital machine was 180 yuan for one year, and the Chinese character machine was 600 yuan for one year. For competitors, the paging access fee was reduced from the initial monthly 100 yuan to 30 yuan and 50 yuan. Until the free access, the paging communication fee was also reduced to 120 yuan per year, and the Chinese character machine fee was also reduced to 200~300 yuan. In order to compete for users, some businesses also provide cheap or even free weather forecast, news and other services. In the fierce market competition, the people have benefited a lot.