The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has announced that it is currently working to verify the activation of the "cellular emergency" feature on all mobile phones available in the country. Bring attention.
In an official response to the questions of «Emirates Today», on the first phase of the «national system of early warning», the Authority said that the feature of «cellular broadcasting in time of emergency», has the ability to determine the geographical area to send the warning message to those in it.
Last week, residents of the state were surprised by warning messages on their phones during the country's exposure to unstable weather. The message was automatically displayed on the telephone screens accompanied by loud noise and vibration, in which the public was directed to take precautionary measures against weather fluctuations and to avoid unnecessary exits.
The National Authority for Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management said that these warning messages are part of the national early warning system, which the Authority recently carried out in cooperation with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).
Cell broadcast
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) said that it is currently working to verify the activation of the cellular broadcasting feature during emergency times on all devices available in the UAE market.
In an official response to the questions of «Emirates Today», the Authority said that since the beginning of 2017, the application of technical inspection on mobile phones, and worked in coordination with the manufacturers to activate the property, through the automatic update of the operating system.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority confirmed that it has set special standards for mobile phones, in order to activate the cellular broadcasting feature, and distribute it to the device manufacturers, while observing compliance with these standards, and testing these devices, and then adopted.
She added that she has worked with Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) and Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC) to align the networks with the specific requirements and specifications of the devices.
Geographical area
The organization of communications that the feature of cellular broadcasting during the emergency, has the ability to determine the geographical area to send the warning message to those in it, while the role of the body to ensure that the compatibility of phones specifications, and the readiness of the network from a technical point of view.
The Authority stressed that these updates are sent from the factory to all mobile phones in the world, so that the visitor to the UAE to receive warnings in case of emergency.
In response to a question whether the voice of the warning messages was intentional or would disappear with the technical updates, the Commission said that the cellular broadcasting feature of warning messages and emergency messages had the potential to determine specific behavior for the message type in order to draw attention to the need, Before the future of the message.
The period of use of «INTEGRAM»
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has called on smartphone users to take advantage of a new feature launched by Instagram.
In a message posted on social networking sites yesterday, the TRA explained that the new feature is to monitor the period of your use of the Integrator application to see how much time you spend using the application.
"The new feature comes through the 'activities' feature, which allows you to know how long it takes to insert an application every day and can also set up a reminder to alert the user if the application is used for a long time.
The organization also said that the application also reduces the alerts that reach the user, instead of appearing every minute, can be displayed every hour, so that the application is not used for other important work.