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Vodafone sells pager unit to Capita

Capita's pager network will gain 1,000 new customers
February 23, 2017

Vodafone (VOD) is finally getting out of pagers, having confirmed that it has sold its pager business to troubled support services group Capita (CPI).

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The humble pager may seem archaic in the age of the smartphone, but the device is still used by medics, coastguards, firefighters and birdwatchers. That said, only 1,000 customers are being transferred to Capita's network in this deal.

The market was awash with paging companies in the 1990s, but Vodafone's service was the last dedicated paging network run by a British telecoms company. Orange cut its network in 2002 and O2 followed suit two years later. Now Capita is the only UK company to run a paging business.