Not only in Lebanon: where in Ukraine pagers are still used and why

To his surprise, journalist Maksym Voytenko learned that pagers are still used in Ukraine — devices that seemed to have sunk into Oblivion. For example, they happen in some medical institutions…

I was interested in the current history of the issue with pagers, where they are still used. In Ukraine, I last saw them at the beginning of zero.

And at the same beginning of zero, I proudly walked with a trunk — this is a walkie-talkie for commercial subscribers. With the help of a walkie-talkie in the editorial office, they calmly listened to the police and the ambulance, I begged her to go on trips to important events with the words: “We need to deliver the news urgently.” Although I already had a mobile phone at that time — it itself resembled a walkie-talkie in size and antenna. But the trunk was even bigger, this was a good punt in those years, and it also caused the SBU and police officers to grind their teeth. And here are the pagers…

I googled it and found out that pagers are still used in those industries where they started in the sixties, when there was no mobile phone for everyone.

Special pagers for employees of medical institutions are sold in Ukraine, they cost website about 13 thousand hryvnias. With their help, messages are sent to employees throughout the hospital complex. Something from the series “Go to the 13th ward and save the patient”.

The transmitter, most likely, is in the clinic itself.

The advantage of pagers for doctors is that they, unlike from mobile phones, thanks to technology, do not interfere with expensive medical equipment and do not prevent it from working.

And even at the beginning of zero in the USA, such a thing as tweezers were sold — the keyboard and transmitter were screwed to the pager — so it was possible to respond to messages.

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