The Interactive Pager was an early messaging device created in 1996 by Research In Motion (the maker of Blackberries). It allowed people to send and receive messages through a wireless network, and it also had a traditional pager system. The Interactive Pager was named the Top Product of 1997 by Wireless for the Corporate User Magazine.Research In Motion Increases Contract With RAM Mobile Data To $90 Million
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on 28 September 2007 The device is credited for rolling out then-new features such as

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delivery and read receipts, sending faxes to phones, and text to speech technology. In August 1998, BellSouth Wireless Data replaced the RIM-900 with the RIM 950 and marketed the service as BellSouth Interactive Paging(sm). The Inter@ctive Pager, introduced in 1996 by

Research In Motion BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it was originally known as Research In Motion (RIM). As RIM, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets ...

(later known for the

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line of messaging devices), allowed users to receive and send messages over the internet via a

wireless Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most ...

data network known as

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. The US Operator of Mobitex, RAM Mobile Data operated the network and introduced the Inter@ctive Pager service as RAMfirst Interactive Paging^SM. The product was named the 1997 Top Product by ''Wireless for the Corporate User Magazine''. The Inter@ctive Pager was also known as the RIM-900.

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