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Articles about commercial mobile alert system

Emergency alerts coming to your cellphone via SMS

by Mark Pascua on Apr 14, 2008 at 03:38 PM

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted a new nationwide warning system that utilizes cell phone SMS to alert the public of emergencies. Called the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), only three types of emergencies will be relayed to the public: a disaster (such as a terrorist attack), immanent or… Continue Reading »

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