Old Technologies: What Was The Beep Pager And How Did It Work? - Media Scanner

The heyday of pagers came in the mid-1990s, when they reached 61 million users. The most important brands were Motorola and Research Within Movement (now BlackBerry), which eventually developed devices with keyboards to respond to incoming messages. In the same decade, however, beepers began to decline due to the popularization of mobile phones. Hezbollah, like other paramilitary organizations, uses a variety of communication methods, from encry…