[LINK] Telstra to do SMS message

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Gordon Keith wrote:
> 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.

That puzzled me, Mobiles are national numbers. So, it must have been cell based.

> 
> 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]
>>>
>>>
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