Beeper Boom

February, 1994

You'd better get used to the ''beep, beep, beep'' of pagers, because the electronics industry is predicting that the number of Americans who use them will go from 18 million today to more than 53 million by 1997. No, they won't all be doctors, lawyers and salesmen; with new wireless communications technology, everyone stands to benefit from a beeper. Instead of just displaying a caller's phone number, for example, some pagers receive voice mail or text messages. There are also watches, cellular...