Feb 20, 2017
Pager alert! Vodafone sells beeper unit to Capita
Vodafone is finally getting out of pagers, the beeping business that seems archaic in the age of smartphones, but is still beloved, in dwindling numbers, by birdwatchers, coastguards and medics. Professional services company Capita is buying the unit and will become a monopoly supplier of paging services in the UK. That will trigger a requirement for approval from the competition regulator, even though only around 1,000 customers are being switched over in the deal. Today's small community of pager addicts prefer beepers over iPhones because of the reliability of the network and the better battery life of the older devices. Vodafone's paging service was the last dedicated paging network run by a British telecoms company, after Orange cut its network in 2002 and O2 followed suit two years later. In 1996, Research In Motion launched a pager that could email, paving the way for the creation of the BlackBerry.
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