I worked for AT&T I was told several times that we did in fact still sell pagers. Mostly to medical workers because pagers don't have a transmitter. They don't send signals back, and while you could set up certain cellphones to do the same thing by turning off certain optional sms features (in phones that expose such things) there are still some times when a normal phone tries to talk back to the tower. That's a big no no around medical equipment. No one that I worked with could actually tell me which part of our company could actually provide a customer with a pager. The few times I had customers ask I had to tell them "yes our company does sell them, but I don't know anyone I could get you in touch with that could get you one, I have no number for you to call, no web site. We sell them, but no one knows how to get them I'm sorry."