The pager messages were encoded to prevent easy tracing of the telephones used, all of which were public telephones.
During her first trauma surgery, she completely baffles the rest of the staff by using lots of British terms not used in America - for example, she asks them to "bleep Benton" (page Dr. Peter Benton), order an "FBC" (US term "CBC"), and perform a "tube thoracostomy" (US term "chest tube").
Officer Ellis Carver tells Bodie Broadus in season one, episode five ('the pager'), that he was brought up on the Flag House Courts project.
The Jazz was the smallest messaging pager at the time of its release,ran on a single AAA battery and had a green LCD.
The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by fire, rescue, and EMS personnel (both volunteer and career) to alert of emergencies.
Page Plus Cellular was established in 1993 as Page Plus Communications, selling pager services in the Toledo, Ohio area.
Grodsky and Pager also calculated wage differences, and found blacks to make $3.65 less per hour than whites in the private sector and $2.85 less in the public sector.
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A study conducted by Grodsky & Pager (2001) found that individual attributes, such as human capital and region, account for just more than half of the black-white wage gap, and an additional 20 percent is due to different occupational distributions between blacks and whites.
Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol (WCTP) is the method used to send messages to wireless devices such as pagers on NPCS (Narrowband PCS) networks.