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Pagers are great.

They're a lot more resilient than the cell phone network, especially if there's a mass disaster.

They tend to work better in basements or deep in buildings.

They don't get annoying amber alerts (important in Canada where they're all sent as Presidential/ICBM), constant "IRS" or "Dell" call spam from your area+exchange code (ie: lookalike numbers that seem internal to your hospital) or SMS spam.

These are excellent features if you're on-call, but must respond to anything.



One way pagers are also privacy friendly - base stations are not aware of your location.




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