Government test of NL-Alert service in Zoetermeer

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The Ministry of Security and Justice in Zoetermeer in the first test of NL-Alert have started. Residents of the municipality would be August 22, a test of the waarschuwingsdienst on their mobile can receive.

To test the system in the municipality of Zoetermeer in the coming days, a test message will be sent with the content: “Test message Government. You don’t have to do anything. For more information: www.nl-alert.nl.” According to the government, people will be there as well as not inconvenienced, because most of the phones are not on the for this test used channel are set.

NL-Alert is a cell broadcast system. Allows text messages to all mobile phones in a particular area at the same time, be sent. Although the technique is a derivative of the well-known sms system, cell-broadcast messages via a separate channel in the network delivered. As a result, the messages are delivered as normal sms traffic platligt.

Incidentally proved last year that today’s smartphones are not all compatible with the service. For phones that handle, the function will be enabled by default, for other devices will with apps worked. Sony Ericsson, for example, supplies since april of this year, at all of its smartphones an app that the devices cell broadcasts received.

If the tests are successful, the government’s NL-Alert in the Netherlands to roll out. How long this will take also depends on the test results. NL-Alert will be until 2017 in any case, in addition to the already existing sirenesysteem function.