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In the UK, most pager transmissions are in five bands at 26 MHz (local pagers, mainly hospital systems, POCSAG and voice) 49 MHz; 138 MHz; 153 to 153.5 MHz; 454 MHz; The frequency 466.075 MHz was previously used by Hutchison Paging, but the network was shut down in 2000. The frequency is still reserved for paging but is not used.
During the 1990s, ERMES aimed to achieve a standardised digital platform throughout Europe. [4] [5] [6] It was intended that paging systems based on the ERMES standard would be able to receive text messages transmitted from personal computers, enabling companies to contact their employees over the PSTN.
Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP) is a protocol that defines a method by which a pager can receive a message over the Internet. It is supported by most major paging providers, and serves as an alternative to the paging modems used by many telecommunications services. The protocol was most recently described in RFC 1861.
Instead the system includes a separate paging controller connected to a trunk port of the telephone system. The paging controller is accessed as either a designated directory number or central office line. In many modern systems, the paging function is integrated into the telephone system, so the system can send announcements to the phone speakers.
Subsequent early machines, and their operating systems, supporting paging include the IBM M44/44X and its MOS operating system (1964), [6] the SDS 940 [7] and the Berkeley Timesharing System (1966), a modified IBM System/360 Model 40 and the CP-40 operating system (1967), the IBM System/360 Model 67 and operating systems such as TSS/360 and CP ...
A paging system alerts a pager (or group of pagers) by transmitting information over an RF channel, including an address and message information. This information is formatted using a paging protocol, such as 2-tone, 5/6-tone, GOLAY, POCSAG, FLEX, ERMES, or NTT. Two-way pagers and response pagers typically use the ReFLEX protocol. [29]
The system was designed at the beginning of the 1980s prior to the Bell System breakup as a modern electronic replacement for the dated electromechanical 1A2 Key System. Earlier Bell attempts at an electronic key system, such as Horizon and Dimension, were not as successful as were the much larger systems; in fact, Dimension was a PBX. The ...
Pagination, also known as paging, is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.. In reference to books produced without a computer, pagination can mean the consecutive page numbering to indicate the proper order of the pages, which was rarely found in documents pre-dating 1500, and only became common practice c. 1550, when it replaced ...