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Re:Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights by ajsnigrutin on Thursday September 19, 2024 @05:56PM (#41596775)
How would you track a pager? It's a receive only device
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Re:Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights by tomrod on Thursday September 19, 2024 @06:00PM (#41596820)
Maybe they once were. Are there features now like receipt confirmation?
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Re:Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights by bigfatkitten on Thursday September 19, 2024 @06:12PM (#41596898)
There was for a while (Motorola ReFLEX), but it was never popular.[1]

The pagers in this case were very boring POCSAG receivers, no transmit capability.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFLEX

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