# `pager` (phone): the numbering plan types the number as a pager

The Spaw phone risk signal pager adds 30 points to risk_score when libphonenumber's numbering-plan metadata types the number as a pager, such as parts of the UK 076 range (dataset libphonenumber).

- Weight: +30
- Dataset: `libphonenumber`
- Read from: `line_type`
- Default SMS policy: does not block it on its own: +30 is within the default ceiling of 60, which blocks only a score above it.

A paging number reaches a paging service, not a phone a person can reply from, and few plans still set ranges aside for them; the UK's 076 is one. line_type answers pager with line_type_source numbering_plan, and the dataset is libphonenumber.

**What it cannot tell you.**

- It reads the plan's range: it cannot tell you whether a paging service still answers there.

**What to do.** Do not take it as a contact number for codes; blocked_line_types pager refuses the line type outright. On its own it scores 30 and passes the default SMS policy, which blocks a score above 60; beside other signals the score can pass that.

The SMS policy is set per account with `PUT /api/v1/phone/policy` (https://spaw.co/docs/api/update-phone-policy) or the dashboard's SMS policy tab, and its `block_signals` may list any signal, this one included.

An excerpt of an answer carrying this signal alone, with the number and the other fields left out, because no test number answers it. The score and the decision are worked out as the lookup and the default SMS policy work them out.

```json
{
    "valid": true,
    "country": "GB",
    "line_type": "pager",
    "line_type_source": "numbering_plan",
    "risk_score": 30,
    "risk_level": "medium",
    "risk_signals": [
        {
            "signal": "pager",
            "weight": 30,
            "dataset": "libphonenumber"
        }
    ],
    "ok_to_send": true,
    "blocked_by": null
}
```

Related:

- [`premium_rate`](https://spaw.co/docs/signals/phone/premium_rate): a premium-rate number
- [`voip`](https://spaw.co/docs/signals/phone/voip): the numbering plan types the number as VoIP
- [`international_network`](https://spaw.co/docs/signals/phone/international_network): an international network or satellite number
- [`shared_cost`](https://spaw.co/docs/signals/phone/shared_cost): a shared-cost number
- [The weights table in the phone guide](https://spaw.co/docs/phone-intelligence#signal-pager)
- [Glossary: line type](https://spaw.co/glossary/line-type)
- [Glossary: SMS policy](https://spaw.co/glossary/sms-policy)

Reference: https://spaw.co/docs/signals/phone/pager