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pager

Also known as beeper, BBCall, B.B.Call

A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter.

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Product.title: Pager
Product.caption: Swissphone RES.Q Hybrid POCSAG pager with GSM and GPS module
Product.type: Wireless telecommunications device
Product.inventor: Al Gross
Product.available: Yes
Product.current supplier: Various

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Unicode character: 📟
Commons category: Pagers
inception: 1949-00-00

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Pagers operate as part of a paging system which includes one or more fixed transmitters (or in the case of response pagers and two-way pagers, one or more base stations), as well as a number of pagers carried by mobile users. These systems can range from a restaurant system with a single low power transmitter, to a nationwide system with thousands of high-power base stations.