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pager

wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric messages and/or receives and announces voice messages; part of a paging system
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pager

Summary

pager ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,014 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • pager is a type of telecommunications device[2].
  • pager's Commons category is recorded as Pagers[3].
  • pager's Unicode character is recorded as 📟[4].
  • 1949 marks the founding of pager[5].
  • pager's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pagers[6].
  • pager's replaced by is recorded as mobile phone[7].

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Definition and Type

pager is a type of telecommunications device[2].

Origins

1949 marks the founding of pager[5].

Why It Matters

pager ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,014 views/month).[1] pager has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] pager is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . thoughtco.com. Retrieved . thoughtco.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1949-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Inception → —
    Subclass of → telecommunications device
    Replaced by → mobile phone
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14622, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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