[LINK] No cash for phone alert system

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:12 AM 18/02/2009, Pilcher, Fred wrote:
>The POMs have, and have had for some time, a system that overrides the
>car radio's "off" button for emergency announcements.

huh. Must be a safety requirement in the radios themselves to allow 
that. As long as there is power in the car, there would be some sort 
of signal trigger perhaps?

>I can't believe how far behind their technology we are.

Read that article I posted about the lack of IT attention by 
successive governments and it will make perfect sense. Sadly, Kim 
Carr is hopeless and Conroy even worse, so the future looks bleak.

Jan



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