Thread: Testing of the cellular network disaster warning system held Friday

The Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation began trials of the public disaster alert system at 1pm today, using cellular broadcast network sites to transmit warnings to mobile phones in five locations in Ubon Ratchathani, Suphan Buri, Songkhla and Bangkok.


The early warning system works at three levels; limited to within buildings, covering a full district and covering an entire province.


The test today was at the building level. An audible signal and a message were sent to the cell phones of people in the provincial halls of Chiang Rai, Ubon Ratchathani, Suphan Buri, Songkhla and at the government complex Buildings A and B in Bangkok.


Pasakorn Boonyalak, director general of the Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, said that the next tests will be on May 7 and 13 and at all three coverage footprints.


People with cell phones using both the Android and IOS systems will be able to receive warning signals, provided that their phones are on Android OS version 12 or higher or version 18 or higher of the IOS operating system. 120 million cell phones in Thailand operate on either the Android or IOS systems.


Users of obsolete 2G and 3G phones will not receive the warning signals, but will receive the warning via the SMS system.


Pasakorn said the public disaster warning will be activated before, during and after a disaster. For example, if there is an earthquake, the message “EARTHQUAKE” would be sent, plus a prepared set of information, such as the places to take refuge.


The development of the cell-site based disaster warning system resulted from the earthquake on March 28 in Myanmar, tremors from which shook Bangkok and its high-rise buildings. Only one collapsed though, the new SAO building in Chatuchak district, burying more than 90 construction workers.

Testing of the cellular network disaster warning system held

Well did our target audience get their bleeps then?

Looking forward to finding out how many kids are bringing a mobile to school when they shouldn't be.

Originally Posted by armstrong

Looking forward to finding out how many kids are bringing a mobile to school when they shouldn't be.

Ah yes could be a cacophony, get back to us wil it be it loud or a buzz lightyear?

Originally Posted by armstrong

Looking forward to finding out how many kids are bringing a mobile to school when they shouldn't be.

Wouldn't this be a good excuse though? Some parent will complain about the safety of Somchai Jr. I'm sure.

Yep c'mon Strongarm eschew that 8th Leo and update us on the Buzz feed.

"Ajarn who quaffs 8
can still be yer mate
Just one more
Yer an alky whore
but 1 helluva date"

Genhgis the Goalkeeper

This is due at 1pm today in CHIANG MAI, in case you had forgotten like me.

The one in Nakhon Ratchasima last week didn't do anything to my phone.

It flashed up a message but no sound for me.

I forgot. F’n’ blasted me while I was cruising along the highway using my phone for tunes though the car speakers. Loud it was. After I get settled back down it does it a second time!

Got pinged lunchtime

Originally Posted by misskit

I forgot. F’n’ blasted me while I was cruising along the highway using my phone for tunes though the car speakers. Loud it was. After I get settled back down it does it a second time!

Consider yourself alarmed.

Good they are trying to be pro active a novelty here in my experience.

I knew fok all about this, got pinged at 1pm, only half read the message then waited for me house to fall down.

Originally Posted by Edmond

waited for me house to fall down.

Urine hour taughts n priors

Bombing down with rain here now.

Nothing to do with the topic really but i'm following a d44 post so...

Originally Posted by misskit

F’n’ blasted me while I was cruising along the highway using my phone for tunes though the car speakers. Loud it was.

In Straya the emergency messages arrive as SMS so the noise level is just an SMS noise.

Originally Posted by misskit

People with cell phones using both the Android and IOS systems will be able to receive warning signals, provided that their phones are on Android OS version 12 or higher or version 18 or higher of the IOS operating system.

Curious to understand what app, that is common to all iOS and Android, the system is using to generate the alert on the phone if it is not an SMS

Originally Posted by misskit

The early warning system works at three levels; limited to within buildings, covering a full district and covering an entire province.

Also curious to know how they geo-restrict it to a building. The warnings in Aus just get sent from the relevant cell phone towers on all carriers and arrive as SMS on all phones within range of the tower.

This was an SMS message preceded by a loud tone. Then Siri read the SMS.

In the US we have tornado warnings which are broadcast by telephone tower only in the areas in danger. There are also sirens going off at the same time. I always had a weather radio, too, but that sort of thing would be useless in Thailand.

Mine wasn't an SMS. Just a full page alert of some kind. Android. Latest update as far as I know.