While you're at it, don't forget to mention that beepers have a "ping" option in them. If you were a crook on the run, and you were stupid enough to not have ditched your beeper you can easily be tracked down. The beeper ping command can be used (supposedly) to track down stolen or lost beepers. The Ping itself also disables the beeper from that point on. Basically, they'd send pings to your beeper throughout the city they expected you in, then they'd find out which cell you were in. After that, they can use a small radar-like gun to actually find your beeper, also by pings. There's probably a way to disable the transmitter in the beeper, but I wouldn't want to mess with a device that tiny. Right now, this is all fine and great, but what would happen when your company pays for the beeper and decides to track you down and see if you actually did have your beeper off when you said it was off so you wouldn't be bothered at home??? I'd say that's a major privacy tresspass right there. Of course there's always the "button" technology which basically tracks down employees....