![]() DVP systems, as evidenced by the findings of the Arlington AAR, are extraordinarily reliable. With each message, the system displays who received and read it and how each person is responding. Today's digital voice paging (DVP) systems operate as virtually wireless multicast systems, alerting thousands of people in seconds with secure text messages. In their recommendations, those same authors categorically stated, "Every firefighter and EMS responder should have a pager to receive dispatch notices both on and off shift … pagers were the most reliable means of notification." Radio channels were initially oversaturated, and interoperability problems among jurisdictions and agencies persist." Cellular telephones were of little value in the first few hours, and cellular priority access service is not provided to emergency responders. The authors of that AAR wrote, "Almost all aspects of communications continue to be problematic, from initial notification to tactical operations. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. (the authority having jurisdiction) following the Sept. Why? Look no further than the After Action Report completed by officials from Arlington, Va. 911 paging system fails during fireĭigital voice pager, really? With all this sophisticated wireless technology, do first responders still need communication technology that first appeared in 1921 when the Detroit Police Department used the first pagers? You bet. ![]()
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