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[23] [24] Hezbollah subsequently imported the pagers to Lebanon in the months before the explosion. [54] [25] Reuters was told that the explosives were not detected despite checks and the pagers were still being distributed immediately before the attack. [55] The exploding pagers were the AR924 model by the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo.
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 ...
At least nine civilians are dead and over 2,750 were injured after pager devices owned by a large number of members in various Hezbollah units and institutions exploded on Tuesday, according to ...
The pagers would have been implanted with explosives and likely only to detonate when a certain message was received,” he said. “The complexity needed to pull this off is incredible.
The Motorola Pageboy used to be very popular with fire brigades as an alarm receiver and, thanks largely to the success of this initial venture, pagers quickly began to replace public announcement systems in hospital and factories. The pager was activated by a 2-tone code, after which a voice message was transmitted.
Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, voice pager used by emergency services to alert of emergencies. Learn about its history, features, activation, and frequency ranges.
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Authorities in Taiwan and Bulgaria on Friday denied involvement in the supply chain of thousands of pagers that detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon in a deadly blow to Hezbollah.
P2000 is a one-way network for pagers used by emergency services in the Netherlands. It is based on Motorola's FLEX-protocol and provides nationwide coverage, but does not encrypt messages.