[30219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: suggestions? hylafax/IXO/ITAP addressable pager companies in UK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Wed Jul 19 04:28:43 2000
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@COLT.NET>
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In-Reply-To: <20000718141857.K28413@reptiles.org> from Jim Mercer at "Jul 18, 2000 02:18:57 pm"
To: jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:26:04 +0100 (BST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> i've got a server in London, UK that from time to time needs some attention.
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> i've been using hylafax here in canada to send off alpha and/or numeric
> messages using a dial-up into the pager company and the IXO or ITAP protocols.
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> works quite nicely.
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> in any case, i would like to do the same thing for the technicians in London,
> however, they aren't clue'd enough to ask their pager company the right
> questions and/or the pager companies i've called were not clue'd enough to
> understand what i was asking.
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> any recommendations for direct-access pagers and/or cellphones in the UK?
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Hutchison Paging [part of Orange] are able to do this with TAP -
we use sendpage to send messages. http://www.orange.co.uk/
Regards,
Neil.
