The pager was the first compact mobile communication tool to appear on the mass market and although smartphones have largely pushed it out, some people still use the reliable technology today.

Thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday in what appears to have been a coordinated attack by Israel against members of the Hezbollah militia. Instead, it appears that Israeli Mossad ...

In what appears to be a sophisticated, remote attack, pagers used by hundreds of members of militant group Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria Tuesday, killing at least ...

A senior Lebanese security source claimed that Israel's Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers or "beepers" ordered by the Iran-backed group months before the blasts.

That’s certainly ingenious. Outside of North Korea and the British NHS, the world had assumed that the pager was long obsolete. Maybe the Israeli Defence Force will go for fax machines next?

Pagers provide a certain autonomy. In contrast, two-way communication carries the expectation to immediately answer and could provide an avenue for follow-up questions. The problem, Peabody said ...

Hundreds of pagers carried by Hezbollah members in Lebanon blew up nearly simultaneously on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack that surpasses a series of covert assassinations and cyber-attacks ...

NEW YORK — Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second ...