The end of pagers.

[Morningside]

Well I must admit they did well and will be missed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-4243...

Obviously I am talking about the pager network. On-site paging will still exist.

[Shaw Tarse]

I didn't know pagers were still in general use.

[anonymous-user]

I remember having a pager, used to ring it myself so I looked cool when it beeped.

[SystemParanoia]

Hack the planet!!

[Edwin Strohacker]

I worked in a paging bureau as a teenager. Lordy that was a stultifyingly dull experience.

[Perd Hapley]

"Today they are still used by bird watchers, who like to send messages about what they have spotted without making a sound"

[battered]

Perd Hapley said:

"Today they are still used by bird watchers, who like to send messages about what they have spotted without making a sound"

Don't bird watchers know how to set their phones to silent?

[Jimmy Recard]

Capita will still be offering a network, according to that page, So surely it will still be possible to use them

I'm not sure why you still would though

[lllnorrislll]

battered said:

Perd Hapley said:

"Today they are still used by bird watchers, who like to send messages about what they have spotted without making a sound"

Don't bird watchers know how to set their phones to silent?

I am surprised that they don't tweet!

[Wacky Racer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbrKK_NPcw

[Chris Type R]

lllnorrislll said:

I am surprised that they don't tweet!

Ha ha.

[essayer]

Ahh memories of trying to relay a dubious message via a phone operator to a friend/relative/teacher from a school pay phone

[aka_kerrly]

lllnorrislll said:

battered said:

Perd Hapley said:

"Today they are still used by bird watchers, who like to send messages about what they have spotted without making a sound"

Don't bird watchers know how to set their phones to silent?

I am surprised that they don't tweet!

badum tish

I must admit I thought it was only medical professionals that still use pagers.

I've not seen one in an office environment in over a decade. At the firm I was at in the early 2000s the directors had just upgraded from Nokia 3210s* & Pagers to Blackberry phones which allowed them to send/receive emails as well as calls/texts etc, That was was seen as a huge development!

+ it meant a bundle of Nokia 3210s available so i got to upgrade from my Motorola C520

[ch108]

My workplace, a factory complex, still use pagers as the mobile reception is pretty poor in certain areas of our site. First aiders also have them too so that all pagers can be activated and the nearest first aider to the incident can attend.

[LeadFarmer]

I used to have a pager. I gave the number to my elderly Nan in case of emergency. I told her to leave her message with the operator and they will send me the message.

"But how will the operator know where you are?"
"It doesnt matter, they will just send the message to my pager"
"But what if you've gone out?"
"It doesnt matter, I will have my pager with me"
"But how will they know where you are?".......

[ging84]

places still use onsite pagers, but these don't require an external network

Some of the main emaining users of the pager networks were communication companies, because the one person you really do need to be able to get a message to in a major outage, is the people who are needed to fix it.

[Evanivitch]

ch108 said:

My workplace, a factory complex, still use pagers as the mobile reception is pretty poor in certain areas of our site. First aiders also have them too so that all pagers can be activated and the nearest first aider to the incident can attend.

Just get a network provider that works over IP. O2 for example have the TuGo app that takes calls and text messages over wi-fi. It's crap, but useful.

[Paul_M3]

Our power station still uses pagers for people on emergency call out. (The main reason being that mobile phones are not allowed on site).

I know that the RNLI still use them as well, and I'm guessing volunteer firemen as well?

[fishermanpaul]

Jimmy Recard said:

Capita will still be offering a network, according to that page, So surely it will still be possible to use them

I'm not sure why you still would though

Oh Crapita. So it'll cost £5000 for them to take a month to tell you that it'll take a week and cost £1000 to deliver your message. They will then, three months later, charge £5000 to fail to explain why your message failed to arrive.
Some idiot will then extend their contract for another few years.

[Vipers]

I do 24/7 call out for Hyperbaric treatment of divers, and patients with CO poinonimg. We use a mobile and pager to cover those areas where reception is poor.

Not sure it this will affect us.