The Inter@ctive Pager is a discontinued two-way pager released in 1996 by

Research In Motion BlackBerry Limited, formerly Research In Motion (RIM), is a Canadian software company specializing in secure communications and the Internet of Things (IoT). Founded in 1984, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartpho ...

(later known for the

BlackBerry BlackBerry is a discontinued brand of handheld devices and related mobile services, originally developed and maintained by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM, later known as BlackBerry Limited) until 2016. The first BlackBerry device ...

line of smartphones) that allowed users to receive and send messages via the

Mobitex Mobitex is an OSI based open standard, national public access wireless packet-switched data network. Mobitex puts great emphasis on safety and reliability with its use by military, police, firefighters and ambulance services. It was developed in ...

wireless network. The US operator of Mobitex, RAM Mobile Data, introduced the Inter@ctive Pager service as RAMfirst Interactive Paging. The device was named '1997 Top Product' by the magazine ''Wireless for the Corporate User''. It is also known as the RIM-900.Research In Motion Increases Contract With RAM Mobile Data To $90 Million
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on 28 September 2007 The device is credited with introducing features such as

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network, forming a peer-to-peer network of Node ...

delivery, read receipts, sending faxes to phones and text-to-speech technology. In August 1998, BellSouth Wireless Data replaced the RIM-900 with the BlackBerry 950 and marketed the service as BellSouth Interactive Paging.

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External links

Interactive Messaging Plus User's Guide
{{DEFAULTSORT:Interactive Pager Pagers Information appliances BlackBerry Limited Products introduced in 1996