
- on RF (radio)
- Published in issue 11/2007 on page 0
Philips type ESC ‘Semafoon’ Pager (1962)
Retronics

In 1963, after about two years of administrative preparation, a lot of telexing, white papering and contract tendering, the Dutch PTT officially launched its nationwide personal pager service called ‘semafoon’ (semaphone). Philips Telecommunications Industry (PTI) were contracted to supply portable pagers for message signalling to, what was expected at the time, no more than 10,000 individual subscribers.