Personally I think pagers are in line for a comeback. I don’t know about you but my phone has become worthless. I get ten telemarketer calls a day saying I am preapproved for $250,000 or I should buy their health insurance or some crap. I can see how a pager would help filter the trash.
If you call me you best leave a message. If you’re not in my contacts I don’t answer.
Mom had her batteries changed a week or so ago. I noted that the staff (the worker bees, not the anointed) had hospital issued flip phones and pagers.
Pagers are not making a comeback. You are being silly.
“Personally I think pagers are in line for a comeback. I don’t know about you but my phone has become worthless. I get ten telemarketer calls a day saying I am preapproved for $250,000 or I should buy their health insurance or some crap. I can see how a pager would help filter the trash.”
I have found that the trend for telemarketers is to trick people into answering by telegraphing your area code and exchange to make you think its a local call. So if your phone number is (aaa) bbb-xxxx, they will “call you from” (aaa) bbb-yyyy.
The area code and exchange for my phone number is on the opposite side of the country, in a place I have never lived and have zero association with, so there is absolutely no reason for anybody to call me. Any number that calls me from there gets blocked. You would think it would be a lifelong process as there are 10,000 potential fake numbers, but fake calls trickle down to almost zero after a hundred or so are blocked