We still use pagers as well (USA Mobility or whatever they are called this week). I think we'd love to drop them, but we've still found SMS to be unreliable in terms of speed of delivery. Sometimes we'll still get the SMS hours later, and not for want of signal (the phone can have full signal, and not be moving for hours, and the message will come at 3am when it was sent at 6pm...)
I've been trying to talk the guy who pays for the cell phones to get me a Droid to see about a way to poll for critical messages from multiple sources... On 3/17/2010 3:14 PM, Scott Thomson wrote: > We use old school Verizon Pagers, one for a primary and one for a > secondary that we physically hand off when we switch on call duties. > > Scott > > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:32:18 -0400 > From: Ryan Pugatch <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [BBLISA] emergency pagers > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi all, > > Currently we have pages sent to our mobile phones via the email->SMS > gateways provided by our carriers (i.e. > #######[email protected]/text.att.net > <http://tmomail.net/text.att.net> etc). Unfortunately, it isn't > always reliable. Sometimes our phone carriers decide that our pages are > spam and drop the messages. > > I am interested in how others handle this. > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > > End of bblisa Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21 > ************************************** > > > > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
