[LINK] Problems with Vic Fire alert App

Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxious at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 11:03:50 AEDT 2013


On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Tom Worthington
<tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> On 20/02/13 10:17, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall this same story last year. ...
>
> The Australian Emergency Alert system was originally designed to send
> text messages to mobile phones based on the billing address. This
> limitation of the system was known at the time it was developed. In 2010
> the PM and AG announced that the system would be upgraded to use the
> location of the handset. However, I don't know how far implementation of
> this has advanced:
> http://blog.tomw.net.au/2010/09/location-based-emergency-warnings-to.html

Only Telstra (until December 2013) and only if your phone has been in
3G/2G mode in the last hour (i.e. 4G devices in 4G mode do not
register their location correctly for alerts)
http://www.afr.com/p/technology/fears_rise_over_bushfire_emergency_QFvde8idwhSfEb3KABMOLL



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