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In With the New…

Tuesday, May 15, 2001

SMS messaging is having a negative effect on the paging business. But pager operators seem convinced all is not lost.

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Bagus TEJO Widjajanto stands amid graves in Kampung Kandang in Jagakarsa, South Jakarta. His fingers fly across the buttons of his cell phone. He is using the short message service (SMS). "When the body is ready to be taken to the cemetery, please let me know," he punches in. He sends the message to his relatives waiting at a funeral parlor in Pasar Rebo, East Jakarta.

The message was only possible because Widjajanto and his relatives all use the

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