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Brickbat: Behind the Times

Charles Oliver | 9.25.2017 4:00 AM


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The United Kingdom's National Health Service uses 10 percent of all the world's remaining pagers. It uses 130,000 of the devices at an annual cost of 6.6 million pounds ($8.9 million).

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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