Government pushes for tool to broadcast emergency messages to all cellphones
Deadline set for new system.
Mon, 10 Apr 2017
The government is a step closer to being able to send emergency alerts to all active cellphones in a disaster.
A new, web-based tool will let Civil Defence sent alerts to everyone on New Zealand's three mobile phone networks or target Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees customers in a specific
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