Why not use both? You can transmit both messages since they use different paths. Interactive text to Cellular allows for message delivery confirmation and escalation. When in-house and serviced by the enterprise Wi-Fi, two paths can be used. When off the WLAN, GSM can be used. If interactive message is not acknowledged, it can be escalated and paged or forwarded automatically.
Paging is also not encrypted. You can decode all the pages going through the air and have an entertaining and in some cases shocking time reading all the interesting things you see. Medical things, nature things, requests for contact. All kinds of things. All right there for anyone to read with a cheap dongle and an antenna.
70777340709. What did I transmit? Here's the kicker: yes, it's not about contents security, but it's about location privacy since (traditional) pagers are for reception only. And as for the contents, one can agree on a code system which no one else can guess.
I like this and you really have some good points!
Nice representation of Paging and how reliable it is compared to cellular by Critical Alert Systems.
Why not use both?
You can transmit both messages since they use different paths.
Interactive text to Cellular allows for message delivery confirmation and escalation. When in-house and serviced by the enterprise Wi-Fi, two paths can be used. When off the WLAN, GSM can be used. If interactive message is not acknowledged, it can be escalated and paged or forwarded automatically.
one glaring deficit: critical communication needs to be closed looped. Paging is open with no feedback to the message sender.
Paging is also not encrypted. You can decode all the pages going through the air and have an entertaining and in some cases shocking time reading all the interesting things you see. Medical things, nature things, requests for contact. All kinds of things. All right there for anyone to read with a cheap dongle and an antenna.
70777340709. What did I transmit?
Here's the kicker: yes, it's not about contents security, but it's about location privacy since (traditional) pagers are for reception only. And as for the contents, one can agree on a code system which no one else can guess.