For a network provider, I would postulate that "e-mail to pager gateway service" is equivalent to "no service". Or do you plan on bringing on having someone manually set up a link between you and the paging company to deliver the "network connectivity is hosed" pages. TAP (or other out-of-band) delivery method is currently (near as I can tell) best-practice for sending alpha pages CONCERNING the network. :) In that vein, I would recommend qpage (www.qpage.org), which -- although largely unsupported [1], works exceptionally well. D [1] Retired Programmer Syndrome. Tom doesn't make time for feature requests these days, its pretty much "on your own", but luckily, it works pretty damn well as it stands. At 1:21 PM -0700 7/18/00, John Payne wrote:
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:18:57PM -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
in any case, i would like to do the same thing for the technicians in London, however, they aren't clue'd enough to ask their pager company the right questions and/or the pager companies i've called were not clue'd enough to understand what i was asking.
Hutchinson Telecom have a TAP gateway - if you ask the operator, they can usually help. The Hutchinson Telecom gateway could also send SMS messages to Orange, and may be able to send text messages to any UK mobile.
any recommendations for direct-access pagers and/or cellphones in the UK?
or www.genie.co.uk will give you an e-mail address for your cellphone or pager, although there can be some lag involved.
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