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Isn't this just a billing distinction though? A 'receive only' pager still needs to announce itself to the cell tower to have messages routed...pretty sure they

• pdkl95 8y ago
  > cell network Pagers do not use the cellular network. (some cellular networks do provide paging-style services, but that is a later development that is unrelated to traditional pagers) > A 'receive only' pager still needs to announce itself A traditional pager doesn't have a radio transmitter. > they're not just multicast The message is broadcast region-wide using very low-bandwidth protocols[1]. A pager will generally only work inside the region it is registered with. To compensate for the lack of ACKs, the message is usually repeated several times; it will missed if the pager is off for all of the transmissions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLEX_%28protocol%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLEX_%28protocol%29