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  2. PageNet - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Who still uses pagers anyway? - AOL

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    Pagers grabbed headlines on Tuesday. ... The global pagers market, once a major source of revenue for companies like Motorola, amounted to $1.6 billion in 2023, according to an April report by ...

  4. On the trail of the mystery woman whose company licensed ...

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    What Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, 49, the Italian-Hungarian CEO and owner of Hungary-based BAC Consulting, says she hasn't done is make the exploding pagers that killed 12 people and wounded ...

  5. Pager - Wikipedia

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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]

  6. List of mobile virtual network operators in the United States

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    Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from the three major cellular carriers in the countryv—AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US, and Verizon—and offer various levels of free and/or paid talk, text and data services to their customers.

  7. What we know about firm linked to Lebanon pagers

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    September 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM. [Getty Images] The Lebanese government says 12 people, including two children, were killed after thousands of pagers used by the armed group Hezbollah exploded. BBC ...

  8. BlackBerry Limited - Wikipedia

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    BlackBerry Limited. BlackBerry Limited (formerly Research In Motion or RIM for short) is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets. The company transitioned to providing software and services and holds critical software ...

  9. Taiwan pager maker stunned by link to Lebanon attacks

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    September 18, 2024 at 7:54 AM. The hunt for the firm behind the exploding pagers has led to Taiwan-based Gold Apollo [BBC] The race to find the maker of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon has ...