• @dhork
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      264 months ago

      From the article:

      Why does Hezbollah use pagers?

      Hezbollah has relied heavily on pagers as a low-tech means of communications to try to evade location-tracking by Israel.

    • @[email protected]
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      174 months ago

      BBC reported they switched to pagers after they realized Israel was using mobiles to target leaders for assassination.

      • FuglyDuck
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        64 months ago

        they’re also basically passive. a pair of AA’s could last a month or so, and, because they’re basically passive, you could pretty much receive them anywhere, including on planes.

        Physically, they’re also quite small, so they’d be more convenient to carry.

    • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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      54 months ago

      NPR was saying earlier that they weren’t the old-style pagers from the 90s, these are more like low-tech burner phones