Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: ssc-vax!clark@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Roger Clark Swann) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Nation wide paging Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 88 22:58:54 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 16 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 180, message 4 Just reading the newspaper here and came across another one of those ads for a NATION-WIDE paging service. This one is from METROCAST (R) - Nationwide Alphanumeric Paging. I have seen these ads many times in the past and have wondered how they work. Surely the target receiver is not paged all across the country... Does the person initiating the page need to know what city the receiver is in ? What happens when the receiver is on board an airplane, high in the sky? ***** ***** ***** * * * ***** * * * * * * * * * * Roger Swann ****** * * ***** * * * * * *** The Boeing Co. * * * * * * * * * * * Aerospace Div. ******* ***** ****** * * * ***** uucp: uw-beaver!ssc-vax!clark voice: 206/657-5810