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Comments: 1 +-   Where have all the pagers gone? on Monday November 10 2008, @10:29AM oddRaisin

Submitted by oddRaisin on Monday November 10 2008, @10:29AM
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oddRaisin writes "After recently sleeping through a page for work, I decided to change my paging device from my blackberry (which is quiet, and has a pathetic vibrate mode) to an actual pager. After looking at the websites of Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, I'm left scratching my head and wondering where all the pagers went. I can't find them or any mention of them. Pagers of yore offered some great features that reflected the serious nature of being paged. They were loud. They had good vibrate modes. They continued to alert after a page until you acknowledged them. I didn't have to differentiate between a text from a friend and a page from work. Now that pagers seem to have become passe, what are other people doing to fill this niche? Are some phones better pagers than others? Are there still paging service providers out there?"
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