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I kept a pager for as long as was possible. It is really the service I want. I had this tiny object that ran off a single AAA cell for something like a month th
by upofadown 5y ago
I kept a pager for as long as was possible. It is really the service I want. I had this tiny object that ran off a single AAA cell for something like a month that would tell me if there was something I had to deal with. The available technology has degraded significantly since then.
You would think that pager service would be significantly cheaper to provide than something like 4/5G...
- dogleash 5y ago>You would think that pager service would be significantly cheaper to provide than something like 4/5G... In almost every way, except the forcing function of using an expensive resource (radio spectrum) less efficiently.
- upofadown 5y agoEntire towns can run off one narrow band FM channel. Paging is efficient simply because of the low bandwidth.