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by BillSeitz
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Aug 11, 2008 1:59 pm |
pager that accepts short text messages (max 140chars) (exact same limit as SMS?)
VeriZon's Text Pager network was bought last year by [American Messaging], so there's only 1 big national player.
Coverage can be variable enough that most buildings that focus on in-building paging (e.g. an ALF) rely on having their own [Pager Transmitter]. This means (a) you can't page a staff person off-campus, and (b) you often can't page a person in the building from outside (e.g. via SMTP)!
You can also try sending SMTP Text Messaging to a Cell Phone, but that's not great either.
And you never get a failure message in any of these cases.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog