[Scan-DC] Fire/Police paging services

[Zane Gorove]

It is not the number of pages but the quality. BNN has good pages that are 
news worthy. I work with them some so this may be biased. Some incident 
pagers page primarily fire and page every small incident so they may have 
inflated page numbers. BNN covers crime and other news worthy incidents not 
only fire.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Z" <paulie.zappa at gmail.com>
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 9:54 PM
Subject: [Scan-DC] Fire/Police paging services


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.

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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.

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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.

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 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.

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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.
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