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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.
Seven months before the explosions, 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 AR-924 pagers [26] [27] [28] about five months before the explosions. [29]
In many photos, blood marks the spot where pagers tend to be clipped — to a belt, in a pocket, near a hand — in graphic reminders of just how intimately people still hold those devices and the links — or vulnerability — they enable. Then as now — albeit in far smaller numbers — pagers are used precisely because they are old school.
The use of pagers has become increasingly common for the members of Hezbollah. The group ordered over 3,000 pagers from Gold Apollo, The New York Times reported , citing unnamed officials.
[1] [2] Once connected, a user can simply enter the commands to send a message to a pager connected to that network. For example, a PAGE command with the number of the device specifies the device to send the message to. The MESS command sets the text of the message to be sent to the text following it. The message is sent out by issuing the SEND ...
What is a pager and why do Hezbollah use them? 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 ...
Why was Hezbollah using pagers? Hezbollah has long touted secrecy as a cornerstone of its military strategy, forgoing high-tech devices to avoid infiltration from Israeli and US spyware.
In The Netherlands the emergency services use the Flex-protocol in the nationwide P2000 network for pagers. The traffic on this network can be monitored online. [1]In South Australia the State's SAGRN network for the Emergency Services paging system (CFS, SES, MFS and SAAS) is run on the FLEX 1600 protocol, and can be monitored online.