The International Cellular Emergency Alert Systems Assn. (CEAS) a...
The International Cellular Emergency Alert Systems Assn. (CEAS) announced formation of the international Working Group for Advance Warnings to create early warning systems for major natural disasters. The group, consisting of major telecom firms and regulatory bodies, will develop…
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and deploy a global early warning system to alert and advise “citizens-at-risk” of impending disasters via cellular broadcast messaging technology. CEAS said the group at first would be “limited to the dissemination of seismic event warning generated by the proposed United Nations tsunami warning program.” But CEAS said it could expand its brief to include an early warning system for “all manmade and natural disaster events.” Members include Science Applications International Corp., VeriSign, LogicaCMG, CellCast Communications, Microsoft Map Point and the Cell Broadcast Forum.