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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Nation wide paging
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Date: 16 Nov 88 17:24:52 GMT
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In article <telecom-v08i0180m04@vector.UUCP> ssc-vax!clark@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Roger Clark Swann) writes:
>
>Just reading the newspaper here and came across another one of those ads
>for a NATION-WIDE paging service. [...] Surely the target receiver is not
>paged all across the country...
   Some companies do.

>Does the person initiating the page need to know what city the receiver
> is in ?
   If paged in one city, yes. In return, you pay less for the page.

>What happens when the receiver is on board an airplane, high in the sky?
   You lose. I think.

				Peter Desnoyers

disclaimer - this has nothing to do with Apple.