Re: Paging - How do you receive?

[Megan Carney <carn0048 () UMN EDU>]

We use pagers so we our cellphones can remain mostly personal. . .the
University no longer reimburses most people for any portion of their
cellphone bill.

Also, it's lets us have 'groups'.  We each have an individual pager number
which is kept internally and one number which will page them all and is given
out for emergencies while on call.

On Monday 07 July 2008 08:52:49 am Cal Frye wrote:
> Jenkins, Matthew wrote:
> > How do you receive your pages pertaining to security, network, server,
> > and/or other equipment?
> >
> > Most of us have cell phones these days.  Currently we send e-mails to
> > the address that makes our phones receive a text message.  One of the
> > biggest problems, however, is that several of our technicians (including
> > myself) do not get good cell coverage where we live and/or travel each
> > day.
>
> We found that generally, our pagers were dependent on the same carriers
> as our cell phones, i.e. when one didn't have service, neither did the
> other. So rather than carry two devices, our group has reverted to
> receiving pages on our cell phones.



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