>Pagers are still used in some industries... I never said that they weren't, yeah? I suggested it being a difficult alternative because of the wide-spread use

>Pagers are still used in some industries... I never said that they weren't, yeah? I suggested it being a difficult alternative because of the wide-spread use of cell phones. For example, in my country, the national paging system was taken down in August of 2011; so, there's no consumer paging services. B2B (which hospitals would be inclusive of) still exist, to be sure, but that means nothing in the overall scheme of a consumer trying to not buy a cell phone.