subject: The Need for Pagers Continues Even Today [print this page] Examples of Pager Use Today Examples of Pager Use Today
Pagers are used to notify emergency personnel such as lifeboat crews and on-duty firefighters.
Security services, including global security use pagers as there is no way of tracking where the pager holder is.
Pagers do not interfere with sensitive medical equipment, so they are used to summon medical staff members.
Emergency services such as police, coast guard, and local governments use pagers as a back-up method to notify others when mobile transmitters become unavailable.
Pagers are a necessity in the IT world. When cellular networks become interrupted, on-call technicians will make use of the pager to notify engineers in an emergency.
In some situations, Construction and mining personnel will use a pager to notify someone as it will not trigger an explosion as a mobile device is capable of doing.
Deaf people obviously have no use for a cell phone, but can make fine use of a pager.
Railway staffs have been known to use pagers to supplement mobile phone usage.
Pagers are used in corporate and high security locations.
Ironically, rare bird chasers in Britain will make use of a pager by paying specific companies to message them with rare bird sightings.
The United States utilizes a two-way paging system with other countries for power control meter readings.
Some irrigation control systems and traffic signals are controlled by paging network systems.
Probably one of the most popular uses for a pager is the "restaurant pager," as it will notify a ravenous group that their table is ready.
