[LINK] Telstra to do SMS message

[Gordon Keith]

We got the Vic bushfire weather alert, but we live in Hobart where it was cool 
and still, washing on the line for four hours hadn't dried, the next door 
neighbour had the wood heater burning.

Any idea how they determine which phones are in Victoria?

Tasmania also uses the 03 area code.

Regards
Gordon

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 02:58:43 pm Nicholas English wrote:
> ...
> The SA Health Dept/Telstra broadcast Health warnings via SMS during their
> heatwave at early one morning. All very considerate ... except I live in
> Darwin Northern Territory where we don't have daylight savings!! At 5:30 in
> the morning during a monsoonal downpour I leapt out bed/sleep to check who
> was calling me - family emergency?! who else could it be?! to be informed
> that "I should stay in side and call 000 if ..." I was sorry it wasn't a
> marketeer as I could at least vented some spleen.
>
> Having experience 'temporal aberations' from a phone service managed out of
> SA previously I could understand what had occurred once I'd woken up one
> could only hope that fire warnings might be a little better managed.
> regards
>
> Nicholas English
>
> 2009/3/2 Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>
>
> > http://www.theage.com.au/national/telstra-to-send-fire-warning-sms-200903
> >02-8lxv.html
> >
> >
> > Telstra to send fire warning SMS
> >
> >    * Reko Rennie
> >    * March 2, 2009 - 12:54PM
> >
> > In a Victorian first, Telstra will send an emergency information text
> > message to more than two million Victorians this afternoon, warning
> > about tonight's extreme weather and fire conditions.
> >
> > Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Steve Fontana said Telstra and
> > other networks would send the information by SMS later today.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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