Re:Pagers are great (Score 1)

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.