Telstra SMS alerts could save lives

The federal government has selected Telstra to build a new $15 million national warning system that will send text alerts to the mobile phones of residents threatened by bushfires. [via Australian IT News]

In the event of brush fires, disease epidemics, sieges, cyclones, terrorist attacks, locust plagues and heat or smog alerts, the system will be used to deliver recorded voice warnings to landlines and text messages to mobiles based on people's billing addresses.

It's hoped the system, which will be able to send at least 100,000 messages at a time, will be in use by the end of November in all states except Western Australia, which has its own State Alert system.

emily | 8:39 AM | New SMS Services |
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