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Guest Mike Wehner
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Pagers might have been the shortest-lived personal electronic device ever to grace a pocket or purse. It seemed like by the time they actually reached mainstream acceptance, the cell phone swooped in and promptly destroyed the pager market. Today, a smartphone can do everything a pager does in about ten different ways, so there really shouldn't be a market for them... but there is. It's a very, very, very small market, but it exists, and now there's one less pager service provider. Vodafone just announced that it's selling its pager service to Capita, making the latter the only pager service provider for all of Britain.

 

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