RADIO PAGING
- Introduction to paging
- What is a pager and what is a page?
- Early paging systems
- The one my grandmother used to page my grandfather
- The evolution of analog paging
- Tone-only paging
- Tone & Voice paging
- Numeric Display paging—a story about the man who invented the Numeric Display pager
- Technology limitations
- The switch to digital technology
- What does digital mean?
- Numeric Display
- Alphanumeric Display
- TAP, PET, and iXO alpha-entry systems
- TDD—for the hearing impaired
- Paging protocols
- System loading
- Two-tone sequential
- 5/6 tone
- Decimal digital
- Total number of subscribers on a system
- The need for more speed and more subscribers
- Two-way Paging
- ReFLEX™ two-way text and telemetry—the last effort or the re-birth of paging?
- The value-added pyramid
- The quick evolution of two-way paging
- InFLEXion™ voice paging—why
it flopped
- New stuff coming out soon.
- Pager management
- Capcodes
- Frequencies
- Billing and Inventory issues
- Subscriber IDs
- Paging Systems
- Local Area coverage
- Wide-Area paging
- Regional paging
- National paging
- International paging
- Networking Systems and History—proprietary and open systems
- What is "simulcast" and why is it better?
- Sequential Zoning and its limitations
- What is "roaming" and how does it work?
- Paging system design—the components—you don't have to be an engineer to understand this part!
- Paging Operators
- Subscriber Paging
- RCCs and PCPs
- Why all the bankruptcies and what happened to the business? Where did we go wrong?
- On-site Paging
- Industrial complex requirements
- Hospital requirements
- Other special purpose paging systems
- Ancillary Offerings
- Voice Mail
- Operator dispatch services
- Telephone Answering services
- E-mail and the effect of the Internet on paging
- Notification
- Complete message
- True e-mail with two-way paging
- Instant Messaging
- Information Services and Mail Drops
- News
- Weather
- Sports
- Horoscopes
- Daily jokes, etc.
- Paging in other countries
- Latin America
- Asia—the BIG successes in:
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- PRC
- Taiwan (how I sold the world's largest paging system in 1986)
- Europe
- The Middle East
- Telemetry Applications
- One-way telemetry
- Electrical Load shedding—Early Motorola systems—the energy crunch
- LED signs—my pet project
- Tele-remote control
- Irrigation control
- Outdoor sign lighting
- Stolen car recovery
- Two-way telemetry
- All the above plus much more
- Error correction and retransmission
- Automatic registration and roaming
- Interrogation
- Brad's list of million-dollar ideas
- How to sell pagers and paging
- Sell the sizzle and not the steak
- To sell John Smith what John Smith buys, we must see through John Smith's eyes.
- Cost justification and ROI
- Customer's hot points
- The right pager for the job—some things pagers can't do.
- Under promise and over perform—how to be a superstar
- The importance of happy customers and repeat business
- Integrity
- Is Paging Dead?
- What comes next?
- People paging people
- People paging things
- Things paging people
- Things paging things
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