Pager

term

ISP & telecomops culture

A one-way radio receiver on a simulcast broadcast network - the bip: no transmitter, no uplink, everything in range decoded and only your address displayed. Classic service relayed messages through human operators; POCSAG and FLEX carried the digital formats.

Reachability before real-time - and a privacy lesson: an operator read every message aloud into the air.

Also known as: bip, beeper, paging

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