Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: mgrant@cos.com (Michael Grant) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Nationwide Paging Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 88 20:37:31 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 20 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 182, message 2 Does the person initiating the page need to know what city the receiver is in? If you have a Metrocast pager, and you go to another city, you are responsible to call an 800 number and tell it what area-code you are in. National Satelite Paging broadcasts the message throughout the country. I do not know how CUE does it. What happens when the receiver is on board an airplane, high in the sky? With Metrocast and NSP, there is a way to replay previous pages over this 800 number. Last I looked, (about 6 months ago), NSP and Metrocast were the only 2 nationwide paging companies that really had systems working. CUE has a system up, but I'm told it's not very usable--lots of lost pages. -Mike Grant