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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Robinson" data-source="post: 1360098" data-attributes="member: 18849">There are still pager services out there.  There are a couple of nation-wide companies that cover some of the larger cities, and some smaller cities still have a pager companies. May or may not be pager service in one's area, just have to look into it.  Pagers never used cellular technology to being with, so old cell technology going away is not an issue.  They do not keep up with where the pagers are.  They just broadcast a few dozen bytes of data across the service area for each page.  So long as each service area is line-of-site, one or a few broadcast antennas would work.  Doctors, volunteer firemen, EMS, and others industries still use them.  Some paging services allow short emails to be sent, sort of like one-way texting. Others allow short voice mails to be transmitted.  Some just give a phone number.</blockquote>