Many people involved with Emergency Management, storm chasing, etc still use pagers. Primarly because when there are times of crisis such as a tornado or other disaster, cell phone traffic spikes very heavily - and is almost unusuable.
Meanwhile, the pager networks are so underutilized anymore that they can handle any spikes amongst the small # of subscribers they still have.
A small tornado came through Oklahoma City last year and my cell phone cycled through sprint, alltel & us cellular's networks. The phone was as usable as a brick. Meanwhile, my pager worked just fine and I was able to receive NWS texts without any problems.
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Many people involved with Emergency Management, storm chasing, etc still use pagers. Primarly because when there are times of crisis such as a tornado or other disaster, cell phone traffic spikes very heavily - and is almost unusuable. Meanwhile, the pager networks are so underutilized anymore that they can handle any spikes amongst the small # of subscribers they still have. A small tornado came through Oklahoma City last year and my cell phone cycled through sprint, alltel & us cellular's networks. The phone was as usable as a brick. Meanwhile, my pager worked just fine and I was able to receive NWS texts without any problems.