Nationwide alerts for cell phones
Friday, April 11th, 2008
From InformationWeek;
link to original CNN article here.
The FCC has approved a new nationwide alert system that will send text messages to cell phones to alert Americans when an emergency, disaster, or attack occurs…
Sounds like this will take some time, since according to CNN the agency that will issue the messages hasn’t been created/decided on yet. I like the idea; I’ve been using Google Alerts and Yahoo! Alerts for some time now for severe weather related messages on my phone. More ways to receive information are always a good thing.
