Hands-Free, Hyper-Local Traffic and Weather Mobile Alerts Now Available to Atlanta Residents to Help Locals Prepare for Hurricane Season

ATLANTA, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta residents can now access the latest local traffic, weather and emergency updates through their mobile phones without ever actually touching their devices.

Global Alert Network (GAN) has launched the first-ever hands-free audio alert application for mobile phones.  The app is free to download and is currently available on BlackBerry and Android devices through AppWorld and Android Market.

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, hurricane season will officially begin in Atlanta on June 1.  The GAN app will help prepare residents by providing them with up-to-date, hyper-local weather alerts, among other important audio updates.

The application initiates automatically – much like a ringtone – and plays the alert without the need for the consumer to interact with his or her mobile phone.  Click here to hear a sample an alert.  Alerts are geo-targeted to the user's location ensuring timely, accurate information about traffic conditions, weather, or other future services to which the user subscribes.

"Global Alert Network's highly personalized hands-free audio alerts push incredibly relevant, necessary and potentially life saving information in a way that cuts through to the driver without distracting that person," said Scott Hughes, President of Global Alert Network.  "Our mission is to deliver important information without having to physically engage with their mobile phones on the road."

Alerts currently available in Atlanta include traffic, weather and certain local emergency information such as Amber alerts.  The Company plans to expand its content channels to include sports and news as well.

Mr. Hughes continued, "Too many drivers today are preoccupied by their mobile devices, which leads to a devastating number of accidents.  According to a study by the National Safety Council, 1.4 million crashes annually are caused by cell phone conversations and 200,000 are blamed on text messaging.  GAN values and promotes driver safety by reducing driver distraction and that was top of mind when designing this application."

Global Alert Network is working closely with AccuWeather.com, a company that provides users all over the world with the best possible weather forecasts, to prepare local Atlanta residents for Hurricane season.

"Hurricane season is a big deal in the Atlanta region, it leads to many devastating accidents, and we are working closely with GAN to provide the most up-to-date, useful alerts to make sure residents are as safe and prepared as possible while on the roads and in their homes," said Jim Candor, Chief Business Officer of Digital Media at AccuWeather.com.

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About Global Alert Network

Global Alert Network (http://www.globalalertnetwork.com/) is a national mobile platform that provides safe, automatic, hands-free audio alerts to a user's mobile phone.  The app, which is free to download, senses when the user is driving and initiates automatically.  Global Alert Network (GAN) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Traffic Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNET), a leading provider of custom traffic and news reports to radio and television stations.

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SOURCE Global Alert Network