What is a One-Way Pager?
A one-way pager is pocket-sized telecommunications receiver. The device is used for reception of short messages, called pages. A one-way pager is also called simply a pager or a beeper, for the beeps that accompany received messages. Pagers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, in wide use before the widespread development of cellular phones. A one-way pager only receives messages. These messages are often only a few digits. They can be numeric or alphanumeric. The most common use of a beeper is to contact someone who can in turn contact the sender. Typically, a page sent to a one-way pager includes simply a phone number. The receiver with the one-way pager may in turn dial the number received to contact the sender. Sophisticated one-way pagers have been upgraded to display more text, such as short messages. Two-way pagers have also been developed to transmit short messages as well as receive them. Since the mid-1990s, a one-way pager is used when only when one-way communication i
