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Emergency warning text and siren to be sent to every phone in Australia [July 27 at 2pm AEST]
(www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
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Germany has been doing these or a while now, works quite good (the tests at least). It only works when your phone is connected to a cell tower, though, that's not really a problem over here in Germany but it could be quite a big one in Australia.
I don't think cell coverage isn't that good in the Outback, even with Vodafone doubling their network coverage (har har).
One thing that's worth noting is that you don't need to be connected to a tower to receive the alert. You could be a Vodafone customer and get the alert if there's only Telstra service where you are.
Your phone still has to be able to connect to a tower (of any provider), no?
Yes. But if it doesn't, it's also highly unlikely that one of these emergency warnings would apply to you anyway. Not many cyclones hitting the deep outback.
Ahhh ... bushfires?
Might not be a problem either since there's no bush in the Outback (correct me if I'm wrong)
I member reading that one of the largest fires (by area) ever recorded was in the outback relatively recently. It was only discovered weeks after the fact because they don't have satellites to monitor fires in the middle of nowhere.
But also, the outback is most of australia, and even the driest areas still have buffle grass scattered close enough for fires to easily spread between them.
The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than what Australians call “the bush”. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropicaland monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in the "red centre" and semi-arid and temperate climates in southerly regions.
Does the German one play a sound too? When I was in Korea I received alert messages but there was no associated "siren" like this.
It does play a sound at full volume. I was in a waiting room at my GP when they sent the test alerts in 2023 or so, it was quite funny hearing every phone in the room going off one by one.
Oh yes, I have actually seen this before now that I think about it. A German streamer received one of these alerts about a month ago because there was an explosion at a chemical plant in his city.