Handphones were priced at $600 in 1997, which is about $1,200 today. Subscriptions were about twice as expensive as today. Pagers only cost $30.
When I first arrived in Singapore in 1997, I came across a new technology. It was neither the PC nor the cell phone (known in Singapore as the handphone). It was the pager.
Most readers under 50 would not remember that device. In those days, cell phones were so expensive that pagers were much more popular.
