As far as I am aware Alphanumeric Pagers do not have
running costs, apart from batteries. They cost from around
£85 upwards to buy. Only the caller pays for their phone
call, at a BT standard rate, which is why they are so
popular for young trendy teenagers.
These can be obtained from shops such as Dixons or Tandy.
Bryan Jones,
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:57:32 GMT AMBROSE SHIRLEY C
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> This is for my son his is in the third year of an oceanography course at
> Southampton University. He is deaf, and cannot use a telephone. We would
> like to provide him with an alphanumeric pager, but all the suppliers and
> networks I have tried charge rather high prices for connection (usually 55p
> per message, or even more from a payphone). Since most of his callers would
> be fellow students, it seems unlikely that they would use this for the
> routine things for which a phone would normally be used. The aim is to
> allow our son to keep in contact with his friends and colleagues in a
> similar way to a hearing person.
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> I would happily pay the call charges, if there were some mechanism to do
> it, but none of the networks seems to have any interest in helping (I have
> tried BT, Vodafone, One to One etc, and, in a word, they couldn't care less.
>
> Thanks again
> Nick Pillans
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