Pocket pagers or beepers have long arrived in Moscow. For equipment try the following. There are more opening all the time. See also CELLULAR PHONES SERVICES.
When buying a pager, pay attention to: 1. frequency, 2. bandwidth, 3. service area, 4. time for delivering message. Study carefully the list of services included in the basic fee and which require additional payment. If they have their own service center, it is a plus. At the current time the federally recognized standards are the American FLEX and the European ERMEX. Gradually a unification of paging and Internet is occurring.
The current market share for paging services appears to be the following: Mobile Telecom 27%, Vesso Link 17%, Tascom 10%, Inform Ekskom 11%.