Specifications

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Terminal Group Access
done for 2-Tone, 5-Tone, HSC, and GSC pagers. Other pager types will be transmitted as
individual pages, consisting of the pager alert followed by the voice message.
There are some restrictions on how many pagers of a given format may share this kind of
single voice message play. For some pager types, this is a programmable parameter (see
System Configuration Files in Series 2000 Paging Terminals Installation and
Maintenance); for others it is a fixed number. For cases where there are more pagers in a
group than may be alerted for a single voice play, the station card software automatically
splits the group into two or more multiple-alert single-voice-play actions. Also, splitting
up will occur if different zones or channels are in the group.
Even with this single voice play feature, you should use Terminal Group Access sparingly.
It is possible to consume a great deal of air time with a single call to a group page if the
voice message must be played many times for different batches of pagers.
Pager Modes
If you have PageSaver, you may create groups in Insure and Notify modes. For these
modes the message will be stored in the mailbox belonging to the group number; none of
the group members need to have mailboxes of their own. If group members do have their
own mailboxes, their mailboxes will only receive messages made to their individual ID
number - no group calls will go into their individual mailbox.
Subscribers that are members of such a group may access the mailbox messages by calling
the group number and entering Owners Access mode. Alternately, a Retrieval number may
be set up for group members to call. With Owners access, any group member could delete
a message from the mailbox. With Retrieval access, callers cannot delete the messages.
In Notify mode, Reminders work just as they do for individual pagers.
Note Use Terminal Group Access sparingly with Tone + Voice pagers. As
a worst-case example, where the single voice play feature noted
above was not in effect, an 8-second voice message to a group
with 15 members would consume 2 minutes of airtime just for the
voice.