Remember numeric and alphanumeric pagers? Those devices that one were as ubiquitous as wireless phones are now have become relics of an age where one-way communication was better than nothing.3. I've always wondered where all the pagers went to because they worked, even inside!
Last time I checked Verizon still had them, just not through wireless sales.
Posted at 10:28AM on Jan 1st 2007 by Vic
4. As a physician, I still use a pager. I wish the hospital I worked at would get with the times, but then again, I don't have to pay for the pager. Being that some days I may literally get paged 40 times in one day, I suppose that it doesn't increase my cell phone bill by way of increased text messaging use.
Posted at 4:46PM on Jan 17th 2007 by Elliot
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1. I don't use a pager anymore, but there was one aspect of the pager that was quite handy. A pager is, in fact, one-way. When I first got a cell phone with "numeric page" capability on its voicemail, I found myself wishing for a second number that went directly to that option. I'd have given *that* number to those few customers-from-hell that would happily leave a 20-minute voicemail with 4 seconds of actual content. Instead (12 years ago), I carried a cell and a pager.
Now, of course, I just give "those" customers a 'special' email addy.
Posted at 8:08AM on Dec 29th 2006 by Roy