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Sales of pagers, walkie-talkies surge amid mobile internet outages in Russia
short by Girish Kumar Anshul / on Friday, 13 March, 2026
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.
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