BEIJING-Ningbo Bird, China’s largest manufacturer of pagers, phased out its pager production this month. When the paging business was at its peak in 2000, Ningbo Bird’s market share was second only to Motorola. Bird also operated paging services in 14 cities.
The total number of paging users in China dropped from 43.84 million at the end of 2000 to 25 million by the end of May. According to industry experts, the paging business in China is expected to disappear.
Pu Jie, vice president of Ningbo Bird, was quoted in China Daily’s Business Weekly saying that “pagers have been replaced by mobile phones as the mainstream communication tool, which has forced us to exit from this sector.”
