Whatever you do get a pager which has a human being taking down the message
at the paging bureau - not an answering machine type tape recorder.
BT sold me a pager with a computer at the other end. When the messages
arrived they were invariably wrong since the sender can't spell out
difficult words to a human operator...Seriously wrong, often criminally
misleading. The transcriber just makes a guess. It is a scandal. You
also have very little time to dictate your message and the messages take
much longer to arrive, since they have to go into a queue and then be keyed
in by an operator.
Altogether a classic example of cutting overheads and sod the customer on
the part of BT.
Michael Durham
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> From: Jel Coward <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Pagers
> Date: 21 January 1998 00:13
>
> In article <[log in to unmask]>, Adrian Midgley
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >If I was going to revert to a pager, I would be tempted to fit a module
to my
> >Palm Pilot, which is just about to be available over here, I gather.
> >
>
>
> Poser!! :)
>
> Incidentalyy - I know there are different makes - but what network do
> they use - and where/what are the aerials - are they they voda/cellnet -
> or is BT different - what about Mercury, are they *really* satellite.?
>
> We have no mobile phones around here - so I need a pager that will work
> - anyone really clued up on this please?
> --
> Jelly Bean [log in to unmask]
>
> When you get fed up surfing....
> ....go find some waves.
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