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		dogleash on Feb 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Surveillance too cheap to meter >You would think that pager service would be significantly cheaper to provide than something like 4/5G... In almost every way, except the forcing function of using an expensive resource (radio spectrum) less efficiently.

upofadown on Feb 15, 2022 [–]

Entire towns can run off one narrow band FM channel. Paging is efficient simply because of the low bandwidth.

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