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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]
2024 Lebanon pager explosions. On 17 and 18 September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies intended for use by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria in an Israeli attack. [8] As of 22 September 2024, 42 people had died, [7][9] including at least 12 civilians. [10]
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.
Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross (/ ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone.
A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...
Pre-existing pager numbers were already scattered under various codes in the 02xx to 09xx range and had 9 digits. Several services used non-standard 01 numbers. [31] These would all eventually be moved to 076 codes and to 10 digits in the Big Number Change in 2000. From 1998 onwards, new pager numbers began to be issued in parts of the 076 range.
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 ...
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.