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  2. 2024 Lebanon pager explosions - Wikipedia

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    While pagers were popular in the late twentieth century they have since largely been replaced by cell phones. [63] Still, some Hezbollah members had used pagers for years before the 7 October attacks , but more members began using them after February 2024, when Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah called on members to stop using ...

  3. Factbox-What we know about the deadly pager blasts in ... - AOL

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    Hezbollah fighters began using pagers in the belief they would be able to evade Israeli tracking of their locations, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters this year.

  4. Everything we know about the exploding pagers in ... - AOL

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    Pagers pre-date mobile phones, having been widely used in the 1980s and 1990s. They are a one-way communications device, allowing people to send a short message via radio signal to the pager ...

  5. Hezbollah exploding pager trail runs from Taiwan to Budapest

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    The senior Lebanese security source identified a photograph of the model of the pager, an AP-924, which like other pagers wirelessly receive and display text messages but cannot make telephone calls.

  6. PageNet - Wikipedia

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    PageNet. PageNet, also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.

  7. P2000 (network) - Wikipedia

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    P2000 (network) P2000 is a one-way communications network for pagers based on Motorola 's FLEX-protocol in the Netherlands. The network is used by all emergency services and provides nationwide coverage. Several tests have shown the network can cope with the largest disasters when large numbers of emergency personnel need to be reached.

  8. Thousands injured, several dead after pagers explode across ...

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    The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. At least nine people are dead and over 2,750 people were injured after pager ...

  9. FLEX (protocol) - Wikipedia

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    FLEX (protocol) FLEX is a communications protocol developed by Motorola and used in many pagers. FLEX provides one-way communication only (from the provider to the pager device), but a related protocol called ReFLEX provides two-way messaging.