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Cell broadcast service for mass alerting

Cell broadcast service for mass alerting

Whether you need to warn citizens about a natural disaster, industrial incident, pandemic lockdown, or another important event, public bodies need a way to transmit the alert to all people in the affected area. In the 2000s, they realized that legacy warning channels such as radio, TV, or sirens were no longer enough and started to implement Cell Broadcast to raise the alarm. Two decades on, the technology has matured to the point where a full national system can now go live in 10 days, as our Kuwait deployment showed.