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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.
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]
In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes. The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes : 213 , 415 , and 916 , for the southern, central, and northern parts of the ...
1947: Area codes 313, 517 and 616 are three of the original 86 area codes in the North American Numbering Plan. 1961: Area code 906 was created in the first split of 616. 1993: Area code 810 was created in the first split of 313. 1997: Area code 734 was created in the second split of 313. and area code 248 was created in the first split of 810.
Wikitext, also known as wikimarkup, is the code used to format content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This help page explains how to use wikitext to create and edit articles, templates, tags, and other elements. You can learn the basic syntax, how to insert links, images, tables, and more.
Page Plus Cellular was established in 1993 by Abdul Yassine, as Page Plus Communications, selling pager services in the Toledo, Ohio, area. In August 1998 the company was renamed Page Plus Cellular and launched services in Ohio and Michigan, followed by a nationwide launch in 2000. Page Plus was originally headquartered in Holland, Ohio, and ...
The event took place at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida . From 1996 through 2005 the tournament was a standard, 72-hole stroke play event. It had a purse of $1,000,000 in its final season, with a winner's share of $215,000. The playoff event in 2006 was the first time golf has ever used a postseason of any kind on ...
Area Code 615 was an American progressive country rock band from Nashville, active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, taking their name from the telephone area code, which at the time covered all of Central and Eastern Tennessee. The band was made up of session musicians, recording only two albums before resuming normal session work.