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Pagers Are Here To Stay

Pager technology has been evolving since 1921, when a kind of pager device was installed for the Detroit Police Department's use. Following this, in 1949 Al Gross' telephone pager was patented for use in a hospital in New York City.

In 1958 the FCC approved the device for popular use, and in 1959 Motorola invented a portable receiver which could get a radio message to the person carrying it. The first pagers hit the consumer market in the mid 1970s. The early versions didn't have displays to read, but they got the job done: you could carry it with you and get the message that someone was trying to reach you. By the 1980s, a few million pagers were in use around the planet, mostly on location, that is, for use in places like hospitals and airports, allowing coworkers to communicate on-the-job. The range that pagers could reach expanded so that, by the mid-90's, we had become a planet of more than 60 million people walking around beeping each other!

Although some would argue that the pager's time has come and gone, and that it served its function as a precursor to the cell phone, there are millions of others around the planet who are still relying on pagers as a critical part of
their daily professional and personal lives. Some industries and institutions still find pagers indispensable and require them to be standard equipment for their employees and contractors. Some countries are less technologically advanced than others, and the pager is very popular in those areas. There are still places on the planet that do not have satellite access, so the pager's use of analog radio waves makes it still a valuable tool. Also, economics factors in, in some parts of the world - pager use can be free of charge whereas a cell phone is not free, and the fact that a pager can go for a long time on one small battery is also a plus.

Technology continues to advance - for example, the incorporation of pagers into laptops - so that the future of pagers, in one form or another, seems assured. Granted, as other instruments have risen to popularity - for example, the cell phone - the pager market has dipped. But, within a year or two, it always seems to rise again. The basic and simple need to make instant contact - a sort of tap on the shoulder in the form of radio waves - continues amongst us humans, and is not likely to go away.