Do people still use pagers? Can you still buy them?
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You can still buy them (from Liz Lemon's ex-boyfriend if no one else), but I doubt too many people use them anymore.
Maybe some professions where you just need to be summoned to come or call in and don't require or desire a voice message, but you can do that with a text message on a cellphone as well.
Maybe some professions where you just need to be summoned to come or call in and don't require or desire a voice message, but you can do that with a text message on a cellphone as well.
Ah, that makes sense. Maybe air crew on airlines then as well.
Yes. Doctors still use them a lot. But your average teenager? That tech fad came and went faster than you can say "chicken pot pie."
For emergency calls I have a pager, and a blackberry, and a 2-way radio. Yes, it's redundant, but what ya gonna do?
I carried a pager for 14 years when I worked at BMC. 24/7. There was no escape.... 
Actually, there was. I work at home now and no pager!
Actually, there was. I work at home now and no pager!
I used to work in a "closed area" where you couldn't bring in anything that transmits. When I went to get a pager (a receive-only pager, mind you, which are even more rare), I swear the guy behind the counter gave me the stupidest "WTF?" look. I don't have that restriction now, but if I went back to another closed area, I'm not even sure I could find such a thing anymore.
I carried a pager for 14 years when I worked at BMC. 24/7. There was no escape....
Actually, there was. I work at home now and no pager!
Yeah, but now people can just call and bug you.
My dad (surgeon) still carries around a pager.
Online conferencing, actually... but no nights or weekends!I carried a pager for 14 years when I worked at BMC. 24/7. There was no escape....
Actually, there was. I work at home now and no pager!
Yeah, but now people can just call and bug you.
I'm sure people who do have the insane need to be in contact with other people 24/7 by having a phone screwed to their ass still use them.
It was only three months ago give or take that we turned all of our two way text pagers in for Nextel push-to-talk phones at my place of employment.
The reason for the switch was that the pagers were no longer being made so replacements were becoming scarce.
I have not seen anyone using a pager for other than work reasons in quite some time.
The reason for the switch was that the pagers were no longer being made so replacements were becoming scarce.
I have not seen anyone using a pager for other than work reasons in quite some time.
God, Nextel PTT phones are the second most annoying device ever made by mankind.
The first one being Ann Coulter.
The first one being Ann Coulter.
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