Defining an Era or Error: Pagers

Posted: September 24th, 2009 ˑ Filled under: Social, Technology ˑ  1 Comment

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The Pagers

Still has a use after the cellphone

A pager (sometimes called a page, beeper or bleep) is a simple personal telecommunications device for short messages. A one-way numeric pager can only receive a message consisting of a few digits, typically a phone number that the user is then expected to call. Alphanumeric pagers are available, as well as two-way pagers that have the ability to send and receive email, numeric pages, and SMS messages.

Until the popular adoption of mobile phones in the 1990s, pagers fulfilled the role of common personal and mobile communications. Today, pagers mainly support the “critical messaging” markets. They are the ideal solution for very quick, very reliable personal or group messaging. Unlike many other mobile communications networks, they continue to work in times of emergency or disaster as they do not suffer from network overload as has been proven many times (September 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina). For this reason, they are still very popular with emergency service personnel, medical personnel, and information technology support staff.

If you still have a pager now, hopefully you are in some medical profession because it will be very hard to find a payphone.

.:: LiBM :::

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    1. Chip gets a sit down with Ditka’s Mustache « gridirongrinders wrote:
      August 15, 2011 at 5:41 pm

      [...] Beat yells as he is walking away. “Beeper number? What’s that even mean?”  After Googling beepers and how to use them I send my number and put a 911 at the end of it to indicate an urgent message and I get a return [...]