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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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]

  4. What we know about the Hezbollah pagers that exploded in Lebanon

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    The pagers "were entirely different" from Gold Apollo's designs and used a chip that Gold Apollo does not use in its own models, Hsu said. Hsu told NPR that Gold Apollo's relationship with Bac ...

  5. 2024 Lebanon pager explosions - Wikipedia

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    2024 Lebanon pager explosions. Please this article until the discussion is closed. 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] As of 22 September 2024, 42 people had died, [7][9] including at ...

  6. 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.

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

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    The pager market today is small but persistent The number of pagers globally is hard to come by. But more than 80% of Spok’s paging business deals with healthcare, with about 750,000 subscribers across large hospital systems, according to Vincent Kelly, CEO of the company.

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

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    Lebanon’s health ministry says one person was killed and over 100 were wounded on Wednesday by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of country. The explosions came a day after an ...

  9. 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 ...