What are the pagers that Israel blew up with hundreds of Hezbollah members?

Hundreds of members of the Lebanese Hezbollah group were killed on Tuesday in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut after the explosion of mobile communication devices ( Pager ) they were using, which brought back to the fore many questions about these media and how they were hacked.

A pager, also known as a pager, is a wireless communications device that receives and displays short written messages, or emits an audible alert signal.

Security sources told Reuters that the communication devices that exploded in Lebanon are the latest model brought by Hezbollah in the past few months (not years).

Al Jazeera reported, citing sources, that more than 1,200 people were injured in Lebanon in the explosion of mobile communication devices.

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A pager is a small, portable electronic device used to receive text messages or the number of the person trying to contact the device. Most of its users are Hezbollah in Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/dibrNvFpld

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What are pagers?

Pagers were developed in the 1950s and 1960s, and became widely used by the 1980s through the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Later in the 21st century, the widespread availability of cell phones and smartphones with text messaging capabilities has greatly reduced the use of pagers.

However, pagers are still used by some emergency services and public safety personnel, because the interference of modern communications networks and those based on satellites can make traditional paging systems more reliable than terrestrial cellular networks in some situations, including during natural and man-made disasters.

This flexibility has led public safety organizations to adopt pagers instead of cellular services and other modern means of communication for use in times of disaster and emergency. The first paging system was patented in 1949 by Alfred J. Gross.

The first public paging services were recorded in 1950 for doctors in New York City. Doctors paid $12 a month for the service. The pager weighed 200 grams and had the ability to receive a signal up to 40 kilometers from the nearest transmission tower. The system was manufactured by Reevesound and operated by Telanswerphone .

How are Pager devices used?

These days, if you want to meet someone, you can easily send a text message on a social media platform. But it wasn’t so easy back in the 1990s. Back then, things went like this: You carried a small device called a pager in your pocket, which would beep to alert you and display nothing more than a phone number on a small screen.

If you were in a public place, you would find a pay phone to call that number and arrange a meeting. The first pagers didn't have a screen, they just made a sound, or vibrated, and you were supposed to know what that meant. Then came modern pagers that could display numbers or letters of the alphabet. Later, some pagers were two-way, meaning they could send and receive messages.

You may have used a pager before, without knowing it. Some self-service restaurants use tablets that diners receive once they place their order and return to their table. After a while, the tablet emits an audible or visual signal to inform customers that their order is ready for delivery. These tablets rely on the same technology used in pagers.

Source: Agencies