Its not a secret that Iran has diplomatic relations with them is it? Same with hamas btw. How do you think they establish communications for holding ceasefire talks?
Nah, see, some people would like to return to the time when saying “terrorist” would get people foaming at the mouth and approve whatever the military wants.
Finding out people’s salaries is a good thing. It’s how you prevent your bosses from screwing everyone over. Of course that information might be sensitive so don’t go around inquiring willy nilly, but it’s definitely a topic that you can and should sometimes visit.
(I know this is a s*** post so it’s all good but some people don’t realize the value in discussing salaries, and they think it’s something that has to be super secret when that only hurts you, the employee.)
For communication? Does Lebanon have a right to defend itself?
This is like asking why Biden has a phone line to the fascists in charge of Israel. Does that make Biden a legitimate target?
Don’t ask his family at the funeral, anyway.
Like you could interrogate meat chunks.
What? Is this the 90s? A pager? Fake news should try harder.
My company uses them regularly as one of their alarm systems when they need to notify the maintenance technicians of something that’s not working because they are reliable and work even if the phone lines are down.
Why should people stop using them if they work?
Also fire departments, hospitals and other medical services. They’re extremely reliable, last a very long time on a charge and don’t shatter when you accidentally drop it.
Cell phones are easily tracked. Pagers aren’t.
How do you figure? A pager is just a way dumber phone, but it’s still a client on a cellular network like any other.
They aren’t though, pagers run in a separate frequency and their own towers with far greater range and penetration. Most aren’t even bi directional they just receive so there is no way to track them.
Pagers have more in common with a transistor radio than a cell phone.
Yeah I realize that now after doing more research
The way I understand it, pagers are a one way device. When a message is sent to a pager it is broadcasted by the network for the pager to recieve, but there isn’t any sort of confirmation sent back to the tower, so they can’t really be tracked. That’s why they were in use prior to cellphones. These pagers ran on a AAA battery from what I understand, which wouldn’t last very long if it was having to constantly broadcast like a cellphone.
Did a little digging and it appears the Hezbollah pages were POCSAG/FLEX which does indeed appear to be one-way, so that’s very possibly a reason why they were picked