pagers

[ELMAJORI]

my husband will not use his mobile phone and I was wondering if I bought him a pager so that I can get him to contact me if necessary. I don't know very much about pagers and was wondering if I have to pay for a contract or does it just cost the price of a text after I buy the actual pager. Probably being old fashioned but it is the only way I can think of getting him to contact me if he is out shopping.

[boxtops]

I didn't know you could still get them! I had one years ago from work, we had to pay an annual contract for it then I think it was so much per message, because you couldn't send a message yourself, you had to ring a central number and they sent the message to the pager. It may be different these days!
No sure though, why does he need to contact you? - we never take our mobiles out when we go shopping, wouldn't even think about it.

[ELMAJORI]

I do not always go with him. Just wondered if this could be an alternative. Thanks anyway Boxtops.

[boxtops]

My sister and her husband got walkie talkies when they went shopping and got separated, otherwise they would never find each other.

[ELMAJORI]

would need to be long range as the shops are 4 miles away. good idea though.

[twix123]

You can still get pagers, either to buy outright or on a minimum of 1 year contract. See the following links:

http://www.starpaging.com/vodafone-pagers.htm

These on the Vodaphone network seem to have the cheapest, from £3.75 a month for 3 years plus 4.2p per minute on rental, To buy they are about £55, but the call costs are about 42.5p per minute (I would think that they would charge for a minte as a minimum).

http://www.pagers.co.uk/shop/

Pagers direct seem to be the biggest company in the business, but appear to be dearer!

Good luck

[twix123]

^minute

[ELMAJORI]

Thanks very much twix123, will try the links you have suggested.