I think they ditched smartphones because of location tracking  

 I sent you a fax to explain. 

 this makes me want a fax machine 📠 

 I have a fax machine and I’ve used it fairly recently to communicate with my ineffectual government. 

 Had one in the old office, once a week there was vacation spam thats all that came through 

 a pager. 

 They stopped using phones because phone location can be tracked 

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pagers are decent anti surveillance tech. That’s why they use them 

 Terrorists. I believe that’s the answer you were looking for. 

 I don’t know but I can point you to a bunch of people who wish they didn’t. 

 There are no fucking exploding pagers. Its counterintel psyop to break down their communications systems and move to something they can hack 

 Did you get my carrier pigeon? 

 People who value their privacy and still need to receive remote messages 

 Very fair point