Sentence examples for first pagers from inspiring English sources

PAGERS (BORN 1951)  At first, pagers were attached to people who worked in fields where lives were on the line.

In the impoverished interior, where annual incomes are closer to $500, only a few people are now getting ready to buy their first pagers.

"My first pager beeped, and that's all it did," said Herb Villa, an engineer for Switch and Data, a data center provider based in Florida that owns the North Bergen facility and 33 others across the country.

Bulky but effective, the $129 Beepwear is the first pager-watch to use Motorola's Flex paging protocol, which enables text and number messages to be received in thousands of cities and towns across the country.

In 1991, Swatch came up with the Beep, the first watch-pager combination, and Seiko followed with its numeric Message Watch.

The company, which bills itself as the nation's sixth-largest pager carrier, filed to liquidate its assets under Chapter 7 of the federal bankruptcy code, The Record of Hackensack reported yesterday.

He said Tiffany first tested the pagers at one of its locations to see how its clientele would receive them and then rolled them out at 10 or 12 of its 43 United States stores.

One idea that did not catch on at first was the pager.

He and Mr. Kristof recently traveled to the Central African Republic, a small, land-locked country in the middle of the continent, and this is the first of Mr. Pager's dispatches.

In 1989 the restaurant chain was the first to begin using pagers (set to vibrate or flash, not beep) to let their customers know when their tables were ready, according to a company spokesman, Howard Gordon.

It's no accident we will market the world's first successful analog wristwatch pager.