On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:21:56 -0400, Jim Richardson
<weaselkee...@gmail.com> wrote:
That's already a problem for getting alert pages. Any actual *pager*
companies left? They all seem to have gone to SMS systems.
SkyTel is the only one I remember. Sadly, their coverage is about that of
Cricket or Clearwire. (at least in NC)
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:37:57 -0400, Joe Greco <jgr...@ns.sol.net> wrote:
Relatively speaking, at&t's Enterprise Paging (which appears to just be
enterprise SMS with a TAP/SNPP gateway) has been a lot more reliable. I
have no idea how reliable it'd be in a major telecom crisis, of course.
I'd expect it to work as well as the cellular network, since it's riding
on it. (read: it stops working when your cellphone does.)
SkyTel *used* to have satelite pagers. I don't think anyone runs such a
network anymore... the pagers were bulky and the network is quite
expensive to run. (just look at Iridium.)
--Ricky
