The exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people and injured 2 800 others in Lebanon and adjacent places on Tuesday were mostly just a new wrinkle on the exploding cell-phones that Israel has ...

“They can’t use mobile phones. They can’t use pagers. They now can’t use radios,” said Nigel Inkster, former director of operations and intelligence for British intelligence agency ...

A pager, commonly referred to as a 'beeper,' is a small, handheld messaging device that receives short messages, numeric or alphabetic, over radio frequency. Long before the cell phone became the ...

By then, pagers also had become associated with drug dealers and schools were cracking down. More than 50 school districts, from San Diego to Syracuse, New York, banned their use in schools ...