How To Save Pager Messages

For people who were always on the go, a pager used to be a requirement. Although these gadgets are not or may not be as common nowadays, their uses may still be important to learn. When cell phones were only drawings in the imagination of a few, messages were sent to a message bureau that had an operator. This operator knew exactly the pager IDs of the people who subscribed to their services. This operator transferred the messages to the pager IDs of the subscribers in order to pass the message along. In other words, there was no direct contact from the sender to the receiver of the message.

Whereas, on a cell phone the sender sends the message directly to the reader who receives the message. Responding to a pager message is the same process as when you receive the message. The message passes through a bureau whose operator directs the message to the correct pager ID before the pager owner receives it. When the recipient has no time to reply, the pager messages have to be saved for a while. Here are the necessary steps:

1. From the Read Message mode, you can move the messages to be saved one by one into the folder. You can move up to 15 messages to the folder.
2. Display the message to be moved and press the Menu button.
3. Press the Read button until you see MOVE FOLDER displayed on screen; release the Read button.
4. When you see MOVE FOLDER on the display, press the Select button.
5. MOVED is displayed. This indicates that you are successful in moving the message to the folder. The pager goes back to the prior mode, the read message mode.
6. When you have the time, try reading the messages one by one. From the stand-in mode, push the menu button two times. You will see GO FOLDER displayed on screen.
7. Push the select button so that the first screen of the saved message will be on display.
8. Push the Read button to get the next saved message. When you have finished reading all the stored messages in the folder, the word END will be displayed. That means that everything that is stored has already been read.

Even if the pager messages are received and transmitted by the pager bureau, it is still not safe for a confidential message to be transmitted. Messages transmitted through the pager system are not protected by any provision of any communication law. There is no confidentiality in the system even if the pager bureau swears that everything it receives and transmits is all “boxed” and labeled confidential. There is always a disclosure of this confidential information no matter what.

Cell phones are a bit safer than pagers. However, if the cell phone owner is a “hot” government official who is considered transparent, even his messages are transparent.