Virtual Paging By IWS Virtual Paging User Guide Virtual Paging provides easy ways for anyone anywhere to send a text message to a pager, and it also enables the pager owner to view their pager messages from any computer on the Internet even if they are out of range of their paging carrier. Messages can be sent to nearly all paging and digital cellular phone carriers. The pager will receive the message usually within a few minutes from when it is sent.
Web based paging is more interactive and faster however.
In order for a person to get his or her own messages to the pager, the user just forwards his or her email to the pager email address as shown above. Most Email programs have an easy way to forward mail, and some even have rules which will let you forward messages from certain people. The subscriber's Internet service provider can also forward a subscribers Email. Virtual Paging has many ways to tailor things like times of day to forward messages and format of the messages to forward. See the User Options bullet below The subscriber will receive the message in their pager and also in their wireless web mailbox.