Sales of pagers, walkie-talkies surge amid mobile internet outages in Russia

Residents in Russia's Moscow are increasingly using walkie-talkies and pagers amid unexplained disruptions to mobile internet services. The Kremlin said the outages were introduced to "ensure security". Sales of walkie-talkies rose by 27% and pagers by 73% as many people turned to older communication tools, according to data from the e-commerce platform Wildberries & Russ cited by Russian media.