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Caduceus said:
And the hospital can page me to a patient's number to bypass having to call them first to get the number I need to call.
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Ok, this makes a little sense. They could leave the number as a voice mail, although yo ustill have the extra step of checking yoru voice mail to get the number.
I would be very suprised if there aren't services available out there that would address this though. It would be a simple matter to have a separate phone number that from the callers perspective was like a pager, let them punch in a number which would then come through to your cell phone as a text message. I can't say I've seen such a service, but I've never had the need for it so I've not looked. It would be a simple matter to set something like that up though.
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Slick said:
Unfortunately there are still lots of ancient *coughgovernmentcough* systems in use that only work with similarly ancient pagers.
Also, newer phones have features that are prohibited in certain sensitive areas - cameras, data storage, etc. Pagers are dumb enough to be allowed just about anywhere.
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What systems do you mean?
I've heard of the secutiry issues. The Federal building in my town has a rule like that, for what sense it makes. If that's an issue you ought to be able to get one that doesn't have those features though.