PUBLIC SERVICE TEXTS: A Nepalese earthquake survivor looking at her mobile phone outside her tent at a refugee camp in Kathmandu, Nepal. A free messaging service set up by the Red Cross and Nepal Telecom will target users according to their location, offering them potentially
KATHMANDU: The Red Cross and a Nepalese telecom firm launched an emergency texting service to send out real-time updates on aid distribution and weather warnings across the quake-hit Himalayan nation.
The free messaging service, set up by the charity and mobile network provider Nepal Telecom, will target users according to their location, offering them potentially “life-saving” information on weather and health hazards in time for the approaching monsoon.
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