A telecommunications terminal is disclosed that comprises: a receiver for receiving a geographically-sensitive message and an indicium of a geographic location of relevance; means for ascertaining a geographic location of the telecommunications terminal; and a processor for determining a geographic region of interest based on the geographic location of the telecommunications terminal, for determining whether the geographic location of relevance is within the geographic region of interest, and for disregarding the geographically-sensitive message when the geographic location of relevance is not within the geographic region of interest.