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Abstract

For informing a user of a pager terminal for receiving message information attributed with a serial message number of the serial message numbers of missing message information, the pager terminal having a missing massage indicator comprises, a message status memory (17) prepared with a message reception table having a reception confirmation flag area and a reception failure flag area for each of possible serial message numbers. A logic `1` flag is set in the reception confirmation flag area corresponding to the serial message number N of the message lastly stored. When a message having a message number M is newly received, the numbers M and N are compared. When M.noteq.N+1, logic `1` flags are set in all the reception failure flag areas corresponding to the serial message numbers from N+1 to M-1 for indicating the reception failure of these messages.

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