I've been thinking about this. Can anyone confirm what is right or wrong with
the following approach?
1. Pagers built in the late 1990s are still widely available and are often
the only ones available since the pager business has fallen off several years
ago. These pagers are true one-way pagers. Receive only, no transmitters. You
receive your page as the message is sent via radio to all towers in your
location, region, or country. There is no way to know where you are so they
broadcast everywhere.
Since many calls or emails aren't that urgent, forwarding an (abbreviated)
email or a voicemail alert to your pager will let you know what is happening
regardless of where you are without tracking.
2. Say you get a page and want to respond. Get the dumbest prepaid cell phone
you can and keep the battery charged but removed at all times.
If you are out and want to respond to a page, select a place to make your
call, put the battery in and go. Small dumb phones boot in seconds. Complete
your call and take out the battery.
Your location has been plotted at the point of making your call, but not how
you got there, or where you went afterward. It would be a dot on the map, in
a location of your choice, instead of continuous 24 hour tracking.
Seems like this would work.
I see people struggling with earphones, wires, bluetooth set ups and so on
and that takes no more time than putting in a battery and turning on a dumb
phone. Shouldn't be too inconvenient, but will it really work? Seems like it
should.
