It was a pleasant affair until the jarring sound of a dozen paging devices suddenly filled the room.

When a customer's table is ready, the paging device calls his cellphone and plays a recorded message.

Approximately 155 million portable electronic paging devices are keeping people connected worldwide.

If no one looked closely, they'd pass as paging devices.

Its fast response time made it attractive as a paging device in a heavily loaded systems (where there are 1.5 or more transactions per second).

"I don't feel like it," Hector announces into his small paging device.

For example, he said that next year the company will start offering two-way paging devices in connection with its electronic programming guides.

The commission also found that District 9 spent $17,000 a year so that 68 officials could have beepers, or paging devices.

About 20 percent of those are cellular telephones and paging devices.

Fixed head disks and drums were particularly effective as paging devices on the early virtual memory systems.