[LINK] Telstra to do SMS message

[Tom Worthington]

At 03:01 PM 2/03/2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>Tom Worthington wrote:
>>>http://www.theage.com.au/national/telstra-to-send-fire-warning-sms-20090302-8lxv.html
>>>
>>>Telstra to send fire warning SMS ...
>...but from above article, it seems the Victorian Government has 
>invoked some emergency powers ...

The state government doesn't have any emergency powers over Telstra; 
that is a federal matter. But usually the telcos will cooperate in an 
emergency without a formal instruction. The heads of the federal and 
Victorian emergency agencies are on a conference panel in front of me 
at APCOA 2009 the moment, so I guess I could ask them.

The Victorians are talking about the new mobile emergency command 
post they got just before the fires and have put to good use.



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