Radio-paging code No. 1
Sign in to savethumb|right|An NEC pager, using POCSAG coding branded for the Skyper networkRadio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the Post Office Code Standardisation Advisory Group, the name of the group that developed the code under the chairmanship of the British Post Office that used to operate most telecommunications in Britain before privatization.
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- How it works
- Message format
- Numeric paging
- Text paging
- National implementations
- Europe
- Americas
- United States
- Mexico
- Colombia
- Asia-Pacific
- References
- External links
thumb|right|An NEC pager, using POCSAG coding branded for the Skyper networkRadio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the Post Office Code Standardisation Advisory Group, the name of the group that developed the code under the chairmanship of the British Post Office that used to operate most telecommunications in Britain before privatization.
Before the development and adoption of the POCSAG code, pagers used one of several codes such as binary Golay code.
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