India Tests Emergency Alert System, Citizens Receive Dummy Message On Phones ...
India is testing its indigenous Cell Broadcasting system. This system sends emergency alerts to mobile phones during ...
Currently, the government already issues disaster alerts through SMS. But unlike SMS alerts, which may be missed by many, the cell broadcast technology used on Saturday is unmissable.
NDMA has begun pan-India testing of cell broadcast alerts on mobile phones. The exercise is meant to check reliability before nationwide emergency use.
A nationwide test of emergency alerts triggered simultaneous messages across millions of mobile phones in the country on May ...
Known as SG Alert, the emergency broadcast system will include StarHub users by end-2026, and M1 and Simba by mid-2027.