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  1. Who still uses pagers anyway? - AOL

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    The UK's NHS was using around 130,000 pagers in 2019, more than one in 10 of the world's pagers, according to the government. More up-to-date figures were not available. Doctors working in ...

  2. 2024 Lebanon pager explosions - Wikipedia

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    In February 2024, Hezbollah's secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, instructed the group's members to use pagers instead of cell phones, claiming Israel had infiltrated their cell phone network. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Hezbollah then purchased Gold Apollo AR924 pagers [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] about five months before the explosions. [ 29 ]

  3. Hezbollah pager explosions in Lebanon and Syria: Everything ...

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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 ...

  4. 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]

  5. 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 ...

  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. Are our smartphones safe? Exploding pagers pose new threat ...

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    Pagers across Lebanon have exploded in what appears to be a highly advanced and unexpected deadly attack. At least 12 people are dead and thousands have been injured in the incident.

  8. Interactive Pager - Wikipedia

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    The Inter@ctive Pager is a discontinued two-way pager released in 1996 by Research In Motion (later known for the BlackBerry line of smartphones) that allowed users to receive and send messages via the Mobitex wireless network. The US operator of Mobitex, RAM Mobile Data, introduced the Inter@ctive Pager service as RAMfirst Interactive Paging ...