Mobile alert system dubbed a success

Technology broadcasts emergency messages to all receivers in a region

- KOMSAN TORTERMVASANA

Telecom operators and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) conducted a successful test yesterday of the full-scale virtual cell broadcast entity (CBE) mobile emergency alert system.

The participating operators were Advanced Info Service (AIS), True Corporation, and state enterprise National Telecom.

The test confirmed that alerts can be delivered to both Android and iOS smartphones, following Apple's recent rollout of cell broadcast support in its iOS 18 for iPhone users in Thailand.

The cell broadcast service technology system requires the CBE system and cell broadcast centres (CBCs) to work.

The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) is responsible for establishing the CBE system as a central command post for warnings. The department is responsible for creating, managing and approving the content of the alerts and defining the areas to be notified.