Pager

Pager is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter.

History

Pagers were first devised and developed in the 1950s and 1960s, and became widely used by the 1980s. In the 21st century, the widespread availability of cellphones and smartphones has greatly diminished the pager industry.

Function

Pagers operate as part of a paging system which includes one or more fixed transmitters (or in the case of response pagers and two-way pagers, one or more base stations), as well as a number of pagers carried by mobile users. These systems can range from a restaurant system with a single low-power transmitter, to a nationwide system with thousands of high-power base stations.

Types of Pagers

There are various types of pagers including Numeric Pagers, Alphanumeric Pagers, Two-way Pagers, and Response Pagers.

See Also

• Mobile Phone
• Telecommunication
• Wireless

References

Pager Resources
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