Earthquakes are a frequent happening in Japan, and breaking news reports that there seems to be a new-fangled approach to warning citizens of the island nation of these tremors utilizing the nation’s widespread network of mobile phones.

Japan’s two biggest wireless operators, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, were recently reported to come up with the development of a system, which would alert customers of an about to happen earthquake, whereas No 3 Softbank maintained to separately function on a similar service.

The mobile phone firms look forward to get a system launched in 2008. The system will send details from the Japanese meteorological agency, which has designed a way of spot-ting earthquakes numerous seconds ahead of the major earthquake hits.

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