What I heard is that as of a few weeks ago, CFS was out of spare pagers, & was
trying to scrounge more from other departments. Just to tide us over until new
ones are approved & purchased. Meanwhile, there are repair delays because there
are no spares to pull off the pile & return with the wrong CAP codes. Each one
has to be fixed (or written off) and returned to its brigade.
As it was probably in here that I heard this, you can discount it as being a
load of bovine manure...
cheers