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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    While pagers were popular in the late twentieth century they have since largely been replaced by cell phones.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. Taiwan pager maker stunned by link to Lebanon attacks

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    Before mobile phones, companies used pagers to send short text messages to employees in the field. But in the last two decades the rise of the smart phone has pushed pagers to the brink of extinction.

  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. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

  6. Simple Network Paging Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Simple Network Paging Protocol. Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP) is a protocol that defines a method by which a pager can receive a message over the Internet. It is supported by most major paging providers, and serves as an alternative to the paging modems used by many telecommunications services. The protocol was most recently described ...

  7. What we know about the Hezbollah pager explosions

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    Some suggested a hack may have caused the pager batteries to overheat, causing the devices to explode. Such an act would be unprecedented. But many experts say that is unlikely, with footage of ...

  8. Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) is an industry-standard protocol for sending short messages via a land-line modem to a provider of pager and/or SMS services, for onward transmission to pagers and mobile phones. [1][2] TAP, initially known as Motorola Page Entry (PET) was adopted in September 1988, by the Personal Communication Industry ...

  9. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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    One-way pager use hit its peak in 1998, and then began a rapid downward spiral. The arrival of the two-way cell phone quickly rendered the technology — long a mainstay of drug dealers and ...