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Cellular Phone Forum / General / GSM / March 2004Any Service To Convert Pager to E-mail?
Is there any service, preferably located in California, that will sell you a dedicated phone number that presents a pager interface to a caller, and delivers the captured keystrokes as an e-mail? We have a device that notifies us of alarms through a pager interface (direct e-mail is not an option), and I really don't want to go out an buy a dedicated pager. I'm sure someone must have a pager service that delivers that page on the back end through e-mail?  SignatureWill westes AT earthbroadcast.com Go to this site. Look under TAP access numbers. Find a company that you know of in your area and JOILA that will allow you to outdial like a pager http://www.notepager.com/support.htm A quick glance shows PacTel, PacBell and cingular Wireless have TAP access.Good Luck > Is there any service, preferably located in California, that will sell you a > dedicated phone number that presents a pager interface to a caller, and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Will > westes AT earthbroadcast.com I'm not looking for a way to send *outgoing* messages to a pager. I am looking for a way to *receive* pages on e-mail. I cannot understand why I need to buy yet another device (a pager) to receive a special kind of message when I already carry an Internet connected e-mail device and could just as easily read the page as an e-mail on my existing device. SignatureWill westes AT earthbroadcast.com > Go to this site. Look under TAP access numbers. Find a company that you know > of in your area and JOILA that will allow you to outdial like a pager [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Will > > westes AT earthbroadcast.com >I'm not looking for a way to send *outgoing* messages to a pager. I am >looking for a way to *receive* pages on e-mail. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >e-mail device and could just as easily read the page as an e-mail on my >existing device. <snip> Well, because Internet-connected devices are not as reliable as pagers? With a pager, the messaging is much faster when compared to e-mail, SMS or pseudo-pages sent to a cellphones. This is true for all of my cellphones, and has been for several years I have carried both pager and cellphones (as an emergency services worker). I've had TDMA (ATT Witless), CDMA (Sprint PCS) and GSM (T-Mobile, and before that, Voicestream), and paging has always been faster. Also, with paging, the network is much more resiliant. On Saudi-American Friendship Day on Manhattan, only the paging networks stayed up, and all the cellular nets, even those not fed from WTC, crashed. Cell nets crash with less than 5% capacity in use. Only folks with Palm Sevens and Blackberries had reliable mobile connectivity. I really appreciate the lure of carrying Just One Device; heck, I'm carrying a pager, two PalmPhones and a 2-way right now, and even Mobile Pants can carry so much stupf. But, that's the way the world works, right now; e-mail is *not* a guaranteed, on-time delivery service, and paging is much more robust by comparison. Not perfect, just much more reliable. -- Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. Thanks for this post. Is it possible to use a Blackberry to receive pages directly? I currently use a 950 to receive e-mail, and it would be great if it could be programmed to also take incoming pages. I'm using the Cingular service with the Blackberry if that matters. SignatureWill westes AT earthbroadcast.com > >I'm not looking for a way to send *outgoing* messages to a pager. I am > >looking for a way to *receive* pages on e-mail. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > -- > Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. >Thanks for this post. Is it possible to use a Blackberry to receive >pages directly? <snip> AFAIK, no. However, please consult your paging representative at Cingular. Please note RIM makes many different Blackberry models. Some use paging networks, some use GSM and a CDMA model is coming soon. Why one would *want* a proprietary OS device with *very* few programs is unclear to me, but, well, takes all kinds. -- John Bartley K7AAY http://celdata.cjb.net This post quad-ROT-13 encrypted; reading it violates the DMCA. Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. So what non-proprietary device, with lots of programs, receives pages directly? I don't need or want a GUI interface that drains battery quickly. My Blackberry goes at least a week without needing a battery change. It's very small, and it seems to work quite well in areas with borderline reception. SignatureWill westes AT earthbroadcast.com > >Thanks for this post. Is it possible to use a Blackberry to receive > >pages directly? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > This post quad-ROT-13 encrypted; reading it violates the DMCA. > Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. >So what non-proprietary device, with lots of programs, receives pages >directly? The PalmOne i705 works as well as a Blackberry and has thousands ofprograms available. >I don't need or want a GUI interface that drains battery quickly. My >Blackberry goes at least a week without needing a battery change. It's [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct >tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. -- John Bartley K7AAY http://celdata.cjb.net This post quad-ROT-13 encrypted; reading it violates the DMCA. Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. > I'm not looking for a way to send *outgoing* messages to a pager. > I am looking for a way to *receive* pages on e-mail. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > connected e-mail device and could just as easily read the page as > an e-mail on my existing device. If you want to try receiving the pages on your cell phone, note that Cingular apparently has a numeric-page-to-SMS interface similar to AT&T's. The number is 1-800-856-6122. It took my message, but my AT&T phone never received it (understandably). As others have said, SMS reliability might not be good enough, but then again SMS may be as reliable as mobile email. Try it and post back here. I don't have a Cingular cell phone, just the Blackberry. So I assume the SMS service isn't going to help me. I guess that the RIM 950 is using Mobitex protocol. Out of curiosity, does AT&T wireless have a similar interface that goes analog phone with digits to SMS? SignatureWill westes AT earthbroadcast.com > > I'm not looking for a way to send *outgoing* messages to a pager. > > I am looking for a way to *receive* pages on e-mail. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > have said, SMS reliability might not be good enough, but then again > SMS may be as reliable as mobile email. Try it and post back here. > I don't have a Cingular cell phone, just the Blackberry. So I > assume the SMS service isn't going to help me. I guess that > the RIM 950 is using Mobitex protocol. I've never seen a RIM 950, but if that's what you have go here: http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=8650& objAction=browse&sort=name and download the "Blackberry Paging User Guide". It contains instructions for "Numeric dial-up paging": Using basic service 1. Dial 1-877-572-4322 on a touch-tone phone. 2. After the welcome greeting, press 1. 3. Type your seven-digit paging PIN. 4. After the custom greeting, type a numeric message using the telephone keypad. > Out of curiosity, does AT&T wireless have a similar interface > that goes analog phone with digits to SMS? Yes, like Cingular they have a dial-up number that can be used to send numeric pages to their pagers and cell phones. Hello, >Is there any service, preferably located in California, that will sell you a >dedicated phone number that presents a pager interface to a caller, and [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >sure someone must have a pager service that delivers that page on the back >end through e-mail? PageGate will do this for you. You could set it up two different ways. You could either take the page into PageGate via a TAP-in interface and resend it via email or you could simply feed the message in by integrating via commandline/ascii and sending via email. Details that will explain much better than I can be found at http://www.notepage.net/pagegate.htm Hope this helps Libby |
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