FIELD: radio communications. SUBSTANCE: radio pager and radiotelephone assembly incorporates radio receiver for receiving page signals transmitted from paging terminal, page-signal recovery decoder, and controller used to find out if positive acknowledgment signal is included in request. Radiotelephone section couples controller to radiotelephone system so as to establish radiotelephone communication with paging terminal for transmitting positive acknowledgment signal to the latter over radiotelephone link in response to request for this signal. EFFECT: improved reliability. 9 cl, 4 dwg
