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Old Mar 18, 2007 | 11:43 pm
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Originally Posted by PorkRind
They're quite common in hospitals, where bans on cell phones in patient treatment areas still exist.
Where I am they can send the page to my cellphone as a text message, so saves on carrying too much hardware!
Hospitals and similar usually have an in-house localised paging system (ie: aerial on the roof), with certain "long range" pagers previously subscribed to commercial providers. Such local systems might continue, but I imagine that the text messaging capabilities of phones will see the end of the commercial pager soon.
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