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Calling an operator to dictate a message to send is the ancestor of SMS… and that was 25 years ago.
25 years ago, young people communicated with… beepers. To send messages, users had to call an operator to dictate them to her. “It’s really useful, once you get used to itThe pager also had a radio option with news flashes. In 1995, pager users were 320,000. By the end of 1996, there were 650,000.Quietly, we are witnessing the agony of the landline“, commented on television.
The prosperity of the beeper was foreseen but in 1999, mobile phones were democratized, replacing small devices. “Tam-tam stops because in fact our customers no longer use Tam-tam“, explained a sales consultant. “To send messages, today, they use their mobile phones. In August, to give you an example, we sent 300,000 messages from Tam-tam, and 5 million messages from the telephone.“, explained a sales consultant.
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