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FCC, FEMA, wireless industry develop mobile emergency alerts

The FCC and FEMA have teamed up with the wireless industry to create a new emergency warning system for mobile devices. The Personal Localized Alerting Network ...

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May 19, 2011 6:30 pm

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The FCC and FEMA have teamed up with the wireless industry to create a new emergency warning system for mobile devices. The Personal Localized Alerting Network is designed to blast emergency messages to every mobile device in a geographic area — regardless of where that phone came from or what network it’s on. The nation’s four largest wireless carriers are part of the effort, which will come online by the end of the year in New York City, and in the rest of the country by next spring.