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A Capitol Hill lobbyist was discussing unemployment insurance with a congressman when a small voice squawked, "Call your mother.Û</br></br>A Capitol Hill lobbyist was discussing unemployment insurance with a congressman when a small voice squawked, "Call your mother.Û "Sometimes itÛªs embarrassing,Û said Hilary Rosen, a lobbyist "who witnessed the incident and also carries a pager. "But we depend on [pagers] so much. You just donÛªt operate without them.Û</br></br>More than 100,000 beepers are in use in the Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis area, the nationÛªs fourth-largest market, said Stan Krejci, vice president and general manager of Metrocall Inc., an Alexandria telecommunications company. The number of pagers in the area has doubled in the last five years, and the pace of sales is quickening, he said.</br></br>Using radio frequencies to play recorded messages, display written information or simply beep, the increasingly sophisticated pagers make up one of the fastest-growing sectors of the booming personal telecommunications industry.</br></br>By 1990, about 10 million personal mobile message machines, or pagers, will be in use nationwide, constituting a $3.6 billion-a-year business, said Clifford A. Bean, a telecommunications industry analyst with Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass.