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Saudi to roll out platform for early warning in emergencies directly to mobile phone
The directorate urged people make sure their phones are updated ahead of the tests and to evaluate the system through a link that will be sent out via SMS.
Saudi Arabia’s authorities will start trials for a phone warnings system on Monday which will be used during emergencies, state news agency SPA reported.
Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Civil Defense and the Communications and Information Technology Commission said the warnings will be sent as cell broadcasts at 5 p.m. locally starting on Feb. 15 and until Feb. 22 in a number of governorates, including Buqayq, Bahra, Qunfudha and others.
The directorate urged people make sure their phones are updated ahead of the tests and to evaluate the system through a link that will be sent out via SMS.
The national platform for early warning in emergencies keeps pace with modern technologies, whereby the warning is by text messages in a targeted geographical area to warn its residents of the imminent occurrence of an emergency in the surrounding area, through mobile phones.
