August 6th 2008 – PageOne, the UK’s leading messaging technology company, has launched ‘pulse’, a priority paging channel specifically dedicated to blue-light organisations. This new paging channel offers automatic and sophisticated priority routing and dynamic bandwidth controls to ensure emergency messaging traffic is maintained without disruption, during periods of exceptional load and crisis.

The dedicated emergency channel is freely available only to PageOne’s paging customers who operate blue-light emergency applications. PageOne will issue new access codes to approved customers to access the ‘pulse’ Emergency Channel Service and immediately start benefiting from prioritised messaging. ‘pulse’ operates on all of PageOne’s radio paging frequencies, and messages can be generated using either PageOne’s ‘Connect’ or ‘flare’ applications or the emergency services own command and control systems.

“Since 7/7 PageOne has worked even closer with hospitals, councils, local and central government to continually improve communications for blue-light applications”, said Chris Jones, CEO, PageOne. “We are positive that the blue-lights will wholeheartedly embrace ‘pulse’. It adds an extra peace of mind to an already resilient paging network negating any likelihood of public/consumer overload in emergency situations. It also demonstrates our commitment to investment and innovation in ensuring paging remains at the forefront of critical communications for the public sector”.

The need for ‘pulse’ emerged after the London 7/7 bombings in which the review by the London Regional Resilience Report identified that organisations must not rely on mobile phones for critical functions in a crisis, and a need for dedicated communications that will work without fail in an emergency. More information on Pulse can be obtained from www.pageonepager.com