SkyTel Reseller Channel:

1Way Numeric Paging

Keep Your Customers in Touch
With the Numeric Paging service, your customers receive important messages accurately, instantly, and at any time. Callers can reach subscribers by simply dialing one toll-free number. Numeric Paging services lets your customers spend less time playing phone tag, and more time reaching the important people in their lives. 

Numeric Paging User Guide

Numeric Paging Features

  • Numeric messages up to 20 digits long. Callers can send numeric messages, maximum 20 digits long. The numeric messages can include telephone numbers or special messages using codes. For example, following a phone number with "911" could mean "call ASAP." 
  • Message recall. Messages are not lost, even if the pager is turned off or out of range. Subscribers simply dial toll-free into the SkyTel System to retrieve messages for up to 4 days after they were sent. 
  • Toll-free calling. All U.S.-based calls into the SkyTel System are toll-free, for both subscribers and the people paging them. Subscribers can also access the SkyTel System toll-free from over 40 countries (surcharges may apply). 
  • Flexibility for sending messages. Message senders can broadcast one message to multiple subscribers, prioritize urgent messages, and program messages for future delivery for time-zone differences. 
  • Ease of use. Every call your customers or their callers make into the system provides step-by-step voice prompts. 
  • Reliable message delivery. The fully redundant SkyTel System has dual central computers, two satellite uplinks and downlinks, and multiple transmitters. Computer, telephone, and satellite technology are combined with fail-safe power sources to make sure that every message is transmitted. 

View a complete list of enhanced services that operate with Numeric Paging. 

Coverage Options 

  • Metro Service: Coverage in one of 48 metropolitan service areas. Includes one or more major cities. 
  • Regional Service: Simulcast service in one of six geographic regions: East, Southeast, Central, Southwest, West, or Midwest.
  • Nationwide Service: Simulcast service in thousands of cities and towns across the US. 
  • Nationwide Now® Service: Subscribers have the option to use temporary nationwide coverage on an as-needed basis, when travel takes the subscriber out of the selected service area. This is a cost-effective alternative to nationwide service for the occasional traveler. 
  • International: SkyTel International Service allows subscribers to receive messages in over 20 countries around the world and can be used in conjunction with any U.S.-based one-way coverage plan.

Message Sending Options
Callers can:

  • Send a numeric message using a touch-tone phone. 
  • Send a voice mail message; the subscriber will be notified on his/her pager and can retrieve the message via a toll-free phone call. 
  • Use the Website Messaging feature. 

Hardware Features

  • FLEX™ technology for longer battery life -- up to 5 months on one AAA battery. 
  • Choice of several musical tones or a silent vibration alert. 
  • Ability to store up to sixteen different 20-digit messages. 
  • Approved Devices: Motorola Bravo, Bravo Plus, Bravo FLX, Pro Encore FLX, Pronto FLX, Ultra Express FLX, BR850 and LS350. To learn more about these devices, visit the Motorola web site.
  • Download user guides for these and other devices.