On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Jacob Suter wrote: > Seriously... > > What is today's market for pagers? I can't imagine there's any real > reason > for them to continue to exist.
There are a number of excellent uses of pagers, including penetration of structures that are RF dense (where cell phones don't work), or signaling people in areas where cell phones are not allowed for security or other reasons. In addition, there's a pretty good number of remote control devices that listen to a particular paging system and a single CAP code (or whatever those are called these days) and numbers correspond to a particular unit doing "something", like switching power on/off to reboot a system, etc. Additionally so-called "two-way" pagers are used to monitor systems, check stock in vending machines/signal the owners to come refill them, empty the coin boxes, whatever. Paging has cost benefits over cellular text in these applications, with cellular carriers being greedy enough to think a single text message should cost $0.50 each, and multiple "receivers" can't be used on that network for a single paging bill... Nate WY0X
