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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.
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 ...
A tote bag bearing the AirTouch logo. 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 ...
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 ...
Presence information. In computer and telecommunications networks, presence information is a status indicator that conveys ability and willingness of a potential communication partner—for example a user —to communicate. A user's client provides presence information (presence state) via a network connection to a presence service, which is ...
Thus was born the messaging platform. Large telecommunication operators and internet service providers needed flexible, easily deployed and scaled messaging systems for quickly growing messaging services and cell phone networks (for examples see SMS and BlackBerry.) The flexibility required related to the deployment or integration with anti ...
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]
Wi-Fi positioning takes advantage of the rapid growth in the early 21st century of wireless access points in urban areas. [4] The most common technique for positioning using wireless access points is based on a rough proxy for the strength of the received signal ( received signal strength indication , or RSSI ) and the method of "fingerprinting".