Hacking or explosives? Questions were raised by the simultaneous explosion of pagers in Lebanon

2024-09-18 06:55:09

A question arises: how is this possible? Pages – or “pagers” – are small boxes used to receive messages, voice alerts or telephone numbers. This paging system uses radio waves, lower frequencies than those used by mobile phones, which allows a larger area to be covered. In France, it can be used in emergency services, especially among firefighters. These small devices, widely used between the 1980s and 2000s, gradually disappeared with the advent of mobile phones, then smartphones.