There has been a 47 percent drop since the peak of almost 1.4 million customers in June 1998. By contrast, the number of cell phone users more than tripled to 2.7 million users in the past two years. SingTel and MobileOne, also the island's two biggest cell phone companies, have merged some of the paging features into mobile phones, enabling users to receive paging messages on their handsets. The two still offer paging services separately. SunPage is a sister company of StarHub Pte Ltd, Singapore's third-biggest cell phone operator.
Analysts say they expect more collaboration between the two companies.
Hutchison, which had about 40,000 paging customers, said it will shut its paging services in May and transfer them to other operators. Other shareholders include Intraco Ltd and Teledata Singapore Ltd, both Singapore-based companies. All Rights Reserved. See all headlines Search Malaysia. Inc. All rights reserved.