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In typical use the person being paged makes direct contact with the sender once the page has been received. It's better than guaranteed delivery, in that the d
by femto 7y ago
In typical use the person being paged makes direct contact with the sender once the page has been received. It's better than guaranteed delivery, in that the direct contact from the recipient closes the loop "completely", and guarantees that the message has not only been delivered but also read, understood and acted upon. The attempt to page continues until the contact has been made.
It's an old technology but it works. Large parts of the world are still installing new paging networks as their old ones reach end of life. Part of my day job is designing the equipment for such networks.
- dTal 7y agoEr, no - verbal confirmation of delivery, in the event it succeeds, is not better than guaranteed delivery; it is strictly worse. If the message gets dropped you have no way of knowing - you might be waiting forever.
- reaperducer 7y agoEr, no - Nobody waits forever. People are not computers stuck in a for loop waiting for input. If a response isn't received in an expected amount of time, then the sender takes the appropriate action. People are far better at dealing with faults than any automated mechanism.