Ms. Brennan was taken aback when, during a lecture at Cardoza Law School, students began asking detailed questions about dealers who use pager services to make home deliveries of drugs.
Southland, a company that provides pager services, has been a consistent money loser, but that did not stop its shares from soaring from a bid price of $8.875 on March 13 to $16.75 on April 3. On that date, the S.E.C. said, the company's securities had a book value of $447,036 and a market value of $47.2 million.
Their successor today is the Breaking News Network, a 24-hour pager service that condenses breaking news for journalists and other clients.
Telephone companies using standard wired service, not cellular or pager service, will return blocks of unused numbers for reassignment to other companies.
The coverage of the current conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is so systematized that the Israeli Army runs a pager service to update journalists on the fighting.
TSR Wireless, a pager service provider and retailer of wireless devices based in Fort Lee, N.J., has reportedly declared bankruptcy and halted business, leaving 2.5 million subscribers in limbo and 1,700 workers jobless.
The mall is home to a company called the Breaking News Network, started in the early 1990s by twin brothers who were working as electronics salesmen and who believed that journalists eager for a scoop would pay for a pager service that transmitted fragments of conversation culled from radio frequencies used by emergency responders, including police officers and firefighters.
Add to these costs his other regular expenses -- $13 a month for pager service, $30 a month for an M.B.T.A. pass to travel to and from work (he drives his car to the subway station and rides from there), $10 a week for gas, $5 a day on fast food (he skips breakfast and eats dinner at home with his parents in Dorchester) -- and Jeff's check is gone.
The watches store up to 16 messages sent either by e-mail or by phone through the pager service, which isn't very many compared with most pagers.
Already, the sudden birth of a short-lived but intense radiation belt last May might have doomed a satellite that supplied pager service to 45 million Americans.
Picking up where its Beepwear line of watches that doubled as pagers left off, Timex has teamed up with pager giant Motorola and pager service SkyTel, a unit of telecom giant WorldCom.
