By Fion Khan / Staff writer, with CNA
This month’s urban resilience exercises would involve deliberately slowing down mobile networks in central areas on Monday and in northern regions on Thursday next week, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said today.
The NCC would announce exercise information through the cell broadcast service tomorrow, it wrote in a Facebook post.
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The public should not panic when they receive the message and should prepare in advance for the drills, it said.
The first exercise would take place in central Taiwan from 2:30pm to 3pm on Monday, covering Chiayi City and Taichung, as well as Changhua, Chiayi, Miaoli, Nantou and Yunlin counties, the NCC said.
The second exercise would be held in northern Taiwan from 2:30pm to 3pm on Thursday, covering Hsinchu City, Keelung, Taipei, New Taipei City and Taoyuan, as well as Hsinchu and Yilan counties, it said.
Voice calls, including emergency calls to 110 and 119, text messaging services and the receipt of Public Warning Cell Broadcast Service alerts would remain unaffected, the commission said.
The commission urged people with important online tasks to complete them before or after the drills, and recommended downloading important files and finishing online transactions or mobile payment activities in advance to avoid disruptions.