Why choose paging
Paging is a one-way wireless broadcast technology that lends itself to real time, group broadcasts and high volume data applications. Messages are delivered in text format to a pager, a small electronic device carried by an individual.
PageOne believes that paging has a number of key benefits that ensure it will continue to play a significant role in the UK telecommunications market in years to come. These include:
Cost effectiveness
PageOne’s paging services offer considerable savings over other types of messaging services for those customers that send a large number of messages per month. PageOne charges its customers a standard monthly rate for paging that includes messages costs. This represents a significant saving for many clients.
Unique broadcast ability
The unique capability of PageOne’s paging network guarantees that, if a message is sent to a number of recipients, then all of those recipients will receive the message at the same time. It also guarantees the timing of the delivery of the message, with no arbitrary delays caused by its network, such as those that can occur when sending SMS messages. This can be vital in industries such as transport where rapid notification across several levels and sites is crucial when problems occur, and for organisations such as the emergency services, for whom immediate and simultaneous message transmission is key.
Independence of network
PageOne’s paging network has complete independence from GSM and other public mobile phone networks. This is an extremely valuable asset and can prove crucial in disaster, accident and terrorist situations when mobile phone networks become quickly saturated with non-essential traffic, under which circumstances the paging network continues to provide customers with guaranteed reliability and access to key personnel.
Restricted environment usage
Unlike mobile phones, pagers can be used in restricted environments such as hospitals and computer rooms. This is crucial, not only to customers such as the NHS but also to customers such as the major communications companies.
For companies that select a messaging tool based on one or more of the above criteria, paging is the only option and thus it forms a key element of many companies’ and public service organisations’ communications strategies.
