What are the Benefits of Local Area Paging vs. Wide Area Paging?
Peace of Mind
The very low latency of local area paging provides extremely fast response times for your messaging. A local response paging system can deliver its messages within three to four seconds. A wide area carrier can take up to ten times as long to deliver critical messages. When time is crucial – the fastest delivery method is an important factor to consider and will give you peace of mind when you need it most.
Reduces Stress
A local area paging system reduces irritation, frustration and stress because you are in control. This is one of biggest and most crucial advantage with local area paging. Since it’s your broadcasting system and your response pagers are receiving the messages, you are in control of the system, its usage and its maintenance. With wide area carriers another entity outside — of your facility — is handling your critical messages. You have no control over their broadcast facilities, their operation or their outages — which can be a big stress producer if you need to send a critical alert message.
Improved Productivity
A pager is one of the most cost-effective and reliable tools for productivity improvement. If you choose a local response paging system, you will have control over the paging devices that your staff members will be using. Not only are these devices cost-effective, their sole purpose is to communicate critical messages on your network. This means your staff members are always available to receive their pages, unlike cell or smart phones that might be out of service due to their being used for personal reasons other than critical alert messaging.
When it comes to critical alert messaging for your facility, speed of message delivery, control over the process, reliability and availability all make a local response paging system the hands-down, superior methodology for delivering your critical messages.