The system is designed to work for most phones released since 2019.
So most phones since 2019 have builtin functionality to blare alarms, show messages on the home screen, and… fuck knows what else… at the sole discretion of the telco?
Curious if anyone here knows more about the mechanism that allows this, presumably it’s some kind of standard? Will custom ROMs work with it or is this another in a long series of fuck yous to anyone daring not to patronise the Bay Area Douche Nexus?
Edit: I see, it’s Cell Broadcast, part of 3G, 4G, 5G, etc. standards. I still wonder about the “un-opt-outable” part; is it just that most phone OSes don’t provide an opt out or is it implemented in firmware somehow? Warning tones I can imagine being wired straight to the drivers, but a visual message seems like it’d have to have OS cooperation.
Clive Palmer already spams out text messages in some places. Imagine if he could pay Telcos to broadcast these for him. Both Clive and Telstra would be frothing over the implications.
So most phones since 2019 have builtin functionality to blare alarms, show messages on the home screen, and… fuck knows what else… at the sole discretion of the telco?
Curious if anyone here knows more about the mechanism that allows this, presumably it’s some kind of standard? Will custom ROMs work with it or is this another in a long series of fuck yous to anyone daring not to patronise the Bay Area Douche Nexus?
Edit: I see, it’s Cell Broadcast, part of 3G, 4G, 5G, etc. standards. I still wonder about the “un-opt-outable” part; is it just that most phone OSes don’t provide an opt out or is it implemented in firmware somehow? Warning tones I can imagine being wired straight to the drivers, but a visual message seems like it’d have to have OS cooperation.
My Samsung phone has an option to turn it off in settings. I don’t see why I would, but I can opt out if I wanted to.
Some places in the world probably abuse it for non-emergencies. Imagine the reach for marketing!
Clive Palmer already spams out text messages in some places. Imagine if he could pay Telcos to broadcast these for him. Both Clive and Telstra would be frothing over the implications.