June, 2008 - MobileSOS has featured in June's edition of Property People Magazine, highlighting the suitability of its Panic Button service for Estate Agents - 1,200 of whom are now subscribers. The timing of the article was appropriate as a few days later a London-based agent was robbed by a fictitious property viewer. Read the full article on p26 here...

January 23, 2008 - Press Dispensary - MobileSOS, provider of personal security services via mobile phones, launches Virtual Roll Call, enabling businesses to have a significantly improved level of two way communications with multiple mobile staff.

Developed partly in response to the London terrorist incidents in July 2005, Virtual Roll Call helps answer two questions every employer of mobile staff potentially faces: ‘How do we know where our staff are?’ and ‘How do we get information to them and manage their responses more efficiently than simply calling or texting them individually?’ more...

1st March 2007 - AV Technology's ongoing commitment to ensuring the health and safety of its employees is being further endorsed by the adoption of a novel mobile phone-based protection and communication system for its field engineers. AVT's engineers regularly work alone, sometimes in remote locations, and as their technical director, Neil Parkinson, concludes: "We were looking for a way of providing reassurance to our engineers that came in a practical and affordable system. MobileSOS's use of the mobile phone - which all our employees carry - and the ability to configure the system according to personal preferences were key factors in our decision to go forward with them as our favoured Lone Worker Protection System supplier." more...

15 Dec 2006 - MobileSOS has today launched a free subscription offer for any woman who feels in danger as a result of the dreadful events in and around Ipswich. It's offering three month's free subscription to its panic button service to all women in East Anglia. Credit card details are taken at sign-up, together with a £1.50 set up cost, and users can have the service activated on their mobiles within minutes. MobileSOS Sales & Marketing Director Russell Ross-Smith, who lives in the Ipswich area comments: "these murders are causing many women to feel vulnerable, and we want to help overcome this fear."

Click here to hear Russels's interview on BBC Radio Suffolk

30 November 2006 - Trisent Communications Ltd today announced an exclusive deal with MobileSOS to resell its range of personal security services to mobile phone users in Scotland. As a value-added reseller, Trisent will offer the MobileSOS service via its Tri-Cell technology platform which will further improve location accuracy. This deal marks the first of a series of location-aware services that Trisent has planned for 2007 that exploits the benefits of its mobile location technology. more..

24 July 2006 - Press Dispensary - WSE Ltd (http://www.wseonline.co.uk), provider of remote working staff to the utilities industries, is to roll out a new personal security service which enables employees in a potentially dangerous or threatening situation to alert colleagues rapidly and discreetly... more...

AFI Aerial Platforms has adopted a new emergency SOS service for employees working alone. Over 100 of the company’s engineers, drivers and hire desk controllers working on their own will be registered with a new personal security service that works on any mobile phone, provided by MobileSOS Ltd. www.vertikal.net

The following is an extract from Hansard of 24/1/2006. No-one from MobileSOS had spoken to Bob Spink MP about the services but we were delighted to learn of his support.
Lone Heath Care Staff (Safety)
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment her Department has made of the potential of MobileSOS and similar technology to protect lone healthcare and social workers; and whether she plans to make such technology available to healthcare and social workers. [42580]
Jane Kennedy: Guidance on how national health service health bodies should properly protect NHS loneworking staff, including how they should evaluate the use of technology for this purpose, was published by the NHS security management service (NHS SMS) in March 2005. NHS SMS has responsibility for all policy and operational matters related to the management of security delivery within the NHS.

MobileSOS (SA) (Pty) Ltd started operations in South Africa in January 2006. The company offers the same range of services as the UK parent and is distributed through a number of major customer-facing organisations who are using their databases to identify potential users of the ground-breaking personal security solutions. Over the past few years, personal safety has become a major issue in South Africa where a number of areas are not safe, especially at night. This is the first of several planned overseas operations. www.mobilesos.co.za

Is your child walking to school alone? If you’re worried about security, MobileSOS could bring you peace of mind. Using a mobile phone, your child can call one quick, pre-programmed number to send you an ‘I’m OK’ message. Should they ever get into difficulty, they can call another preset speed dial number, which will send an alarm message giving the location of the call, by phone, text and email, to up to five contacts. www.familiesonline.co.uk

The Newtonfallowell estate agency has announced that it will be providing its employees with full access to the MobileSOS personal security service. "The personal safety of our team is of paramount importance to our company," says Mark Newton, managing director, newtonfallowell. "We take our duty of care very seriously, and are therefore delighted to be using the MobileSOS service which helps to protect our employees when they are away from the office. Some of our people occasionally feel uncomfortable whilst out on valuations and viewings - MobileSOS now gives them an extra level of security." You can read the article in full at www.securitypark.co.uk

MobileSOS is promoting its location-based personal security service for those employed in evenings or late-night work, such as bar staff, as well as those who work in nightclubs or restaurants. The danger of attack or mugging is intensified after dark and is increased further at weekends. MobileSOS can be accessed via any mobile phone, so that workers returning home from a night shift can get an urgent message to friends, family and work colleagues - or any other trusted contacts - quickly and easily... Geoffrey Cheetham of MobileSOS explains: " Personal security remains a high priority for vulnerable workers traveling to and from late-night shifts and precautions should be taken by them and their employers to ensure safety and peace of mind for the workers and their families."

A new personal security service could get agents out of potentially dangerous situations and reassure colleagues and loved ones that they are save. MobileSOS can be acced via any mobile phone, so that users can get an urgent message to colleagues quickly and easily.... Estate agents entering a potentially dangerous situation can even use a timer function that will trigger the emergency alert if not cancelled before the end of a pre-argreed time span. As well as being a tool for emergencies, the service can also be used to reassure colleagues and managers. With a second pre-selected speed-dial number, agents can let their office know that they are safe, that they have arrived a a particular property, or simply where they are. The safety of agens has been a concern in the industry since the disappearance and murder of Suzie Lamplugh when showing a supposed tenant around a property.

I've been highly critical of child tracking applications in the past. While they sound a great idea at first, you soon realise that most don't do what they claim - ie keep kids safe ....However Mobile SOS have sent me some details of their product, which actually neatly side-steps these issues, up to a point anyway. Moreover, they've clearly looked at how kids use phones and just made this process more efficient. You can read the article in full at www.mobile-weblog.com

Following the recent research by Children's Charity NCH about the prevalence in schools of 'electronic' bullying, mainly through text messages and videos recorded on mobile phones. MobileSOS has suggested that its personal security services can help in the fight against bullying. You can read the article in full at www.securitypark.co.uk