Our smartphone app provides the ability for members to communicate with groups of other members via text and voice messages. Voice messages are played live to other members who are viewing the conversation, so this also doubles up as a private "talk group". Internal messaging greatly increases the communication within your department and keeps everyone in the loop.
Yes, your department just requires the rental of our radio streams capture hardware.
Yes, Virtual Pager will only activate for a given member if they have specifically chosen to enable it for a given department in their app's dispatch settings page.
Yes, the alert will play at the volume that is set for playing music/videos, which is not affected by the Silent or Vibrate mode.
Yes, when a member toggles the one touch availability slider on the home tab to Unavailable, another slider appears allowing them to turn all sound off. This will silence all alerts and prevent the radio stream from activating, to avoid unwanted interruptions.