1.   If golfers take too long on a hole, a monitoring system alerts the golf course marshal on a digital pager.

2.   Many people with digital pagers have created family codes to make sure the kids have been picked up from school or that somebody gets the right groceries for dinner.

3.   Some vie for digital pagers and cellular phones.

4.   The wireless technology includes new and compact cellular telephones, but it also includes digital pagers that can also receive e-mail wirelesssly from the Internet.

5.   Thousands of towers have risen during the cellular phone and digital pager booms.