Re: suggestions? hylafax/IXO/ITAP addressable pager companies in UK

["Derek J. Balling" <dredd () megacity org>]

For a network provider, I would postulate that "e-mail to pager 
gateway service" is equivalent to "no service".

Or do you plan on bringing on having someone manually set up a link 
between you and the paging company to deliver the "network 
connectivity is hosed" pages.

TAP (or other out-of-band) delivery method is currently (near as I 
can tell) best-practice for sending alpha pages CONCERNING the 
network. :)

In that vein, I would recommend qpage (www.qpage.org), which -- 
although largely unsupported [1], works exceptionally well.

D

[1] Retired Programmer Syndrome. Tom doesn't make time for feature 
requests these days, its pretty much "on your own", but luckily, it 
works pretty damn well as it stands.


At 1:21 PM -0700 7/18/00, John Payne wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:18:57PM -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
> >  in any case, i would like to do the same thing for the technicians 
> > in London,
> >  however, they aren't clue'd enough to ask their pager company the right
> >  questions and/or the pager companies i've called were not clue'd enough to
> >  understand what i was asking.
>
> Hutchinson Telecom have a TAP gateway - if you ask the operator, 
> they can usually
> help.  The Hutchinson Telecom gateway could also send SMS messages to Orange,
> and may be able to send text messages to any UK mobile.
>
> >  any recommendations for direct-access pagers and/or cellphones in the UK?
>
> or www.genie.co.uk will give you an e-mail address for your 
> cellphone or pager,
> although there can be some lag involved.
>
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