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Motorola Pageboy. Motorola Pageboy was the second pager ever produced by Motorola with individual-unit addressing, [clarification needed] after the less known 1955 (not 1956 as believed) Pager called "Handie-Talkie Radio Pocket Pager". [citation needed] The first pager-like system was used in 1921 by the Detroit Police Department.
Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]
By 1990, wide-area paging had been invented and over 22 million pagers were in use. Their number exploded and by 1994, there were over 61 million pagers in use. Motorola’s Pageboy II Pageboy II. Motorola’s Pageboy II was launched in 1975 for the United States and 1976 for Europe in various types. Pb II 5-tone only 68–88 MHz / 146–174 ...
John Francis Mitchell (January 1, 1928 – June 9, 2009) was an American electronics engineer and president and chief operating officer of Motorola. [3] [4] Mitchell led the pioneering development and implementation of Motorola's mobile phone technology producing the first portable transistorized pager and cell phone.
Motorola, Inc. ( / ˌmoʊtəˈroʊlə / [2]) was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded in 1928 as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin. [3] The company changed its name to Motorola in 1947. [4] After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, Motorola ...
PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.
AirTouch Communications was an American wireless telephone service provider, created as a spin-off of Pacific Telesis on April 1, 1994. Its headquarters were located in the One California building in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. [2] After a series of mergers, the company's vestiges are now part of Verizon .
Motorola Minitor. Front view of the Minitor V pager. The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by fire, rescue, and EMS personnel (both volunteer and career) to alert of emergencies. The Minitor, slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes, is carried on a person and usually left in selective call mode.