POCSAG pagers are still alive, especially for radio amateurs!
Some ten years ago a large amateur radio POCSAG network was active in Germany. In PA this phenomena didn’t lift off. Perhaps also because most of the dutch (commercial) pager activity took place in the 2m band. That band was quite stacked and hardware was hard to find. Some loners have been experimenting with german equipment, but always on very small scale.dware geëxperimenteerd, maar dit is allemaal kleinschalig gebleven.
Until in 2015 some HAM radio operators with the same interest in pagers found eachother, revitalizing amateur radio paging. The chaps have bundled their knowledge at the Dutch Amateur Pager Network website.