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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. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,826,055 articles in English. From today's featured article. The oyster dress is a high fashion gown created by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen for his Spring/Summer 2003 collection Irere. McQueen's design is a one-shouldered dress in bias-cut beige silk chiffon with a boned upper body and ...

  4. List of BlackBerry products - Wikipedia

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    UMTS 2100/1900/850/800 MHz or 2100/1700/900 MHz and GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900. Optical Trackpad, Capacitive Touchscreen interface, 5 MP camera, speakerphone, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS, external microSDHC, 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, 1.2 GHz processor, Thinnest BlackBerry, NFC Mobile Payment System.

  5. Mobile phone - Wikipedia

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    Mobile phone. A mobile phone (or cellphone [a]) is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone ( landline phone ). The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone ...

  6. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    History of mobile phones. A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile ...

  9. Page Plus Cellular - Wikipedia

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    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 ...