Are pagers becoming obsolete?
Are pagers becoming obsolete?
(OP)
I am the co-owner of an answering service that only works with companies within the HVAC/R industry. I have noticed that fewer and fewer of my clients use alpha-pagers and those that once used them have switched to nextel. I was curious of any professionalsstill rely on pagers? Thanks for your input.





RE: Are pagers becoming obsolete?
when I worked at an electric utility (and I take some credit for initiating this -- I introduced our IT guy to the idea), we had a computer dial up specific pagers and advise our plant management (and officers) when units came on-line, off-line, and some had them paged if a significant load change occurred -- this then developed into a notification of the environmental guys whenever a CEM (continuous emission monitoring) went into alarm...
to the best of my knowledge, they are still using these pagers (and many don't want to give out their cell phone numbers, or be paged via cell phone)
I am not up on the technology developments, but if your business has a dependency on the use of pagers, maybe there is a potential for serving your HVAC/R customers by supplying a paging service of critical customers .... (and I do not know the market either) --
RE: Are pagers becoming obsolete?
The big issue is why one would want to carry around a pager, a phone and a PDA, if price was not a concern. Although, as more functions are combined, I would be concerned about a single failure taking out multiple systems, which could be REALLY annoying.
Most of the mahogany row guys at work carry Blackberry's that are tied directly to email, which allows them to get email as well as getting pages via email.
TTFN
RE: Are pagers becoming obsolete?
I'm not arguing that pagers are more effective then cell phones, because they most certinly are not, but in certain places where cell phone signals are dead, pager signals carrying valuable information still get through.
We still offer alpha paging services to customers and I see no need to do away with it until cell phone technology improves. Thanks for everyones input so far.
RE: Are pagers becoming obsolete?
I can only say that the universe is conspiring against you.
My phone can only handle two numbers per name, which means office+cell, leaving no place for a pager, which would require a duplicate name entry, ugh..
TTFN
RE: Are pagers becoming obsolete?
RE: Are pagers becoming obsolete?
As much as we would like to consolidate what we carry on our belts, we've determined that it's best to keep our pagers, at least for now.
---KenRad