[Scan-DC] Fire/Police paging services

[Paul Z]

I have been a lurker on this list for many years and have enjoyed the
various input that the scan-dc has been involved with.

My scanner died a few months ago and I have held off purchasing a new
one. Although it's not the same I decided to subscribe to some
incident paging services to see what kind of service I would get.

Each of these paging services offers different paging areas around the
US. The area that I selected to be paged from was the  Washington DC &
Baltimore area  including nationwide multiple alarms and excluding
weather related.

The paging services that I found that covered this area was:

1st Responder Wireless News
Breaking News Network
The Incident Page Network

What I show below is the total number of pages for each of the
services as well as the number of pages from the DC/Baltimore area VS.
the number of nationwide alerts. I also looked to see if any of the
three services pages the same incident.

I am going to keep track of the number of pages from different areas
over the next month or so , but here are my results from March 23-26.

------------
June 23:
 1st Responder Wireless News:

10 total pages. 4 from DC/Baltimore and 6 nationwide.

 Breaking News Network:

22 total pages. 20 from DC/Baltimore and 2 nationwide.

The Incident Page Network

4 total pages. 4 from DC/Baltimore and 0 nationwide.

------------
June 24:
1st Responder Wireless News:

5 total pages. 2 from DC/Baltimore and 3 nationwide.

 Breaking News Network:

 12 total pages. 11 from DC/Baltimore and 1 nationwide.

The Incident Page Network

7 total pages. 7 from DC/Baltimore and 0 nationwide.

  ------------
 June 25:
 1st Responder Wireless News:

10 total pages. 6 from DC/Baltimore and 4 nationwide.

 Breaking News Network:

 16 total pages. 15 from DC/Baltimore and 1 nationwide.

The Incident Page Network

5 total pages. 5 from DC/Baltimore and 0 nationwide.

-----------
 June 26:
 1st  Responder Wireless News:

6 total pages. 5 from DC/Baltimore and 1 nationwide.

 Breaking News Network:

9 total pages. 6 from DC/Baltimore and 3 nationwide.

The Incident Page Network

4 total pages. 4 from DC/Baltimore and 0 nationwide.

======

As you can see the "leader" in the number of pages so far is BNN.

Does anyone have any other paging services they can recommend?

I hope someone finds this useful in determining what provider to use.
I plan to keep up this monitoring for a few months and post the
results.

\\\\\ Disclaimer /////
I do not work for any of these services nor do I know anyone that
works for these services. I have subscribed to each of these services
in order to evaluate which service I will subscribe to for the long
term.