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2. Pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a ...

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   Pagers also run on a different wireless network than mobile phones, making them more resilient in emergencies — one of the reasons why many hospitals worldwide still rely on them. For Hezbollah ...

3. What we know about firm linked to Lebanon pagers

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   The founder of Gold Apollo, Hsu Ching-kuang, denies that his firm made the pagers [Getty Images] BBC Verify has learned she graduated from the University of Catania with a physics degree in 2001 ...

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

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   Images of destroyed pagers analysed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo, a Taiwan-based pager manufacturer. The firm did not ...

5. 2024 Lebanon pager explosions - Wikipedia

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   2024 Lebanon pager explosions. Israel, joint operation between the Israeli military and intelligence services (Mossad) [ 8 ] On 17 and 18 September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies intended for use by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria in an Israeli attack. [ 8 ]

6. The Lebanon explosions raise a question: Deep into the ...

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   Pagers were the first iteration of ‘always on’ From the start, people have been ambivalent about pagers and the irksome feeling of being summoned when it's convenient for someone else. Inventor Al Gross, regarded by some as the “founding father” of wireless communication, patented the pager in 1949 intending to make it available to doctors.

7. 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]

8. How could pagers in Lebanon have been rigged to explode? - AOL

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   Popular in the 1980s and 1990s, pagers are still used in some physical high-stakes jobs that require reliable extended communication due to their longer battery lives.

9. Doctors and first responders are among those who still use pagers

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   Pagers were the first iteration of ‘always on’ From the start, people have been ambivalent about pagers and the irksome feeling of being summoned when it's convenient for someone else. Inventor Al Gross, regarded by some as the “founding father” of wireless communication, patented the pager in 1949 intending to make it available to doctors.