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Hezbollah reportedly bans its members from carrying cell phones and has them carry pagers instead: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-how-

• aenis 2y ago
  Thats an interesting attack vector on its own. Who does not regularly carry a phone with them these days?
• bluescrn 2y ago
  That was a mistake. If they'd gone for the thinnest smartphone they could buy, there'd be no chance of anybody hiding a small bomb inside it.
  • kayodelycaon 2y ago
    With a cell phone, the bomb is conveniently express-shipped to you by F-16. Or thoughtfully hand-delivered by the Mossad Postal Service.
  • rdl 2y ago
    Assuming you aren't joking: Pagers are receive-only, which is why they'd use them in preference to cellphones, which transmit even when just idling to register on cells.
    • LinuxBender 2y ago
      Pagers are receive-only This has not been true for some time. Pagers attach to a network in the same way a cell phone does. It is true they are more reliable in the receive only sense, as they can receive the broadcast message in the area they last attached to and the acknowledgment is not required to see the message but they do indeed transmit.
      • blantonl 2y ago
        Not these pagers
        • rdl 2y ago
          Yes, almost certainly HA was running a POCSAG network.
  • bewaretheirs 2y ago
    Pagers are immune to a number of threats that two-way communications devices enable.