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I use a pager for on-call because the battery life and reception exceed cell phones. I have had coworkers who were on-call at night and their phone decided to u
by gamegoblin 7y ago
I use a pager for on-call because the battery life and reception exceed cell phones. I have had coworkers who were on-call at night and their phone decided to update and restart at 3am, resulting in their missing a page.
- macintux 7y agoIndeed. Uptime and (maybe less relevant these days) better reception in hard-to-reach places. Plus there are often (or at least used to be) regional paging companies; it’s nice to deal with a service provider who’s local and small enough to care about your business. One unlikely downside: I recall a very localized outage years ago that apparently no one at the paging company noticed and there weren’t enough users in the area to complain before it bit us.