Smoke rises from a mobile shop as civil defence members gather in Sidon, Lebanon September 18, 2024 (credit: REUTERS/HASSAN HANKIR) The radios being blown up are reportedly IC-V82 radios ...

But that company makes model IC-V82, which they say has not been shipped to the Middle East since 2014. A company spokesman said the pagers could have been knock-offs because many counterfeit ...

Lebanese authorities have said that the devices used in the attacks were Gold Apollo Rugged Pager AR-924 pagers and ICOM IC-V82 walkie-talkies. Both Gold Apollo and ICOM have distanced themselves ...

After the attacks, which came as Israel stepped up its offensive against Hizbollah, Icom launched an investigation into the devices and said its IC-V82 handheld radio “was produced and exported ...

Then on Wednesday evening, hundreds more devices known to be in use with Hezbollah—particularly, Japanese ICOM IC-V82 walkie talkies purchased earlier this year—also exploded, killing at least ...

Icom's website lists the V82 as one of its most frequently counterfeited products. "Pay special attention to counterfeit IC-V80, IC-718 (currently produced model) and IC-V82 (discontinued model ...

For Icom, one problem is that it stopped making the IC-V82 model in question a decade ago, around the time it started introducing holographic stickers as a protection against counterfeit products, the ...

For Icom, one problem is that it stopped making the IC-V82 model in question a decade ago, around the time it started introducing holographic stickers as a protection against counterfeit products ...

Footage shot in the aftermath showed destroyed devices bearing the brand Icom, a Japanese company. A statement from the firm describes the IC-V82 model as a handheld radio which was exported to the ...

Icom Inc director Yoshiki Enomoto holds an IC-V82 device, which the company said it stopped producing in 2014, in Osaka, Japan, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters Taiwan-based Gold Apollo Co (金阿波羅通信) put the ...