Digital Paging
Digital paging has been popular for decades in the medical industry.
Doctors and other medical professionals who use medical
answering services have counted on digital pagers to relay
critical patient information with expediency. Other industries
have also used digital pagers to relay mission critical information
over digital pagers in a timely fashion.
What is a Digital Pager?
A digital pager is a simple, hand held electronic device, just
smaller than a deck of cards that receives pages from paging
towers. A digital pager is different from an alpha
pager in that it only conveys numeric information to the
subscriber. A digital pager is often used to quickly get in
touch with someone to inform them to call a specific number,
which displays on the digital pagers screen.
The Strengths Of Using A Digital Pager For Answering Service
Message Delivery
Digital pagers have typically been very fast in getting information
to an end user. Telephone Answering Service has systems that
will automate the paging process based on the information collected
by the live
operator. A page is instantaneously sent out at the time
that an operator saves a message that meets paging criteria.
The Weaknesses Of A Digital Pager
Answering Services are limited in the application of digial
pagers, and many consider digital pagers to be an outdated technology.
An example of one of the limiting factors of an answering service,
is that the answring service can page an individual with a phone
number for the individual to call, but no answering service
will know for certain whether the page got through to the end
user. An answering service can page an individual to contact
the answering service to pickup a message, but other message
delivery options are typically better suited to perform this
task.
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