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  2. Pager - Wikipedia

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    A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, 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.

  3. Operator messaging - Wikipedia

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    It is a service that consists of live operators who answer incoming calls and input the callers' messages on a computer, then transmit the message using the Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol to the paging provider's radio towers. Alphanumeric pagers receive the messages in the form of words and numbers. Messages are sequentially numbered and ...

  4. Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol. 1985 MetroMedia IXO Device. Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) is an industry-standard protocol for sending short messages via a land-line modem to a provider of pager and/or SMS services, for onward transmission to pagers and mobile phones. [1] [2]

  5. Gold Apollo - Wikipedia

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    Founded by Mr. Hsu Ching-Kuang in October 1995. Gold Apollo is a company producing POCSAG / FLEX (protocol) pagers. At beginning of funding, Gold Apollo produced only numeric pagers and focused on the domestic market. In the late 1990s, Gold Apollo developed a whole new alphanumeric pager and started aiming worldwide markets.

  6. Alphanumericals - Wikipedia

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    A black-headed gull ringed with an alphanumeric plastic ring that makes it easier to read from a distance. Alphanumericals or alphanumeric characters are any collection of number characters and letters in a certain language. Sometimes such characters may be mistaken one for the other. Merriam-Webster suggests that the term "alphanumeric" may ...

  7. Radio-paging code No. 1 - Wikipedia

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    An NEC pager, using POCSAG coding branded for the Skyper network. Radio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the P ost O ffice C ode S tandardisation A dvisory G roup, the name of the group that developed the code under the ...

  8. International Bank Account Number - Wikipedia

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    The International Bank Account Number ( IBAN) is an internationally agreed upon system of identifying bank accounts across national borders to facilitate the communication and processing of cross border transactions with a reduced risk of transcription errors. An IBAN uniquely identifies the account of a customer at a financial institution. [1]

  9. ISO 3166-2 - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of ISO 3166-2 is to establish an international standard of short and unique alphanumeric codes to represent the relevant administrative divisions and dependent territories of all countries in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than their full names. Each complete ISO 3166-2 code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen: [1]