Comments on: Flood Warnings via SMS http://userfirstweb.com/270/flood-warnings-via-sms/ A blog about putting people before technology Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:39:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: <img src='http://userfirstweb.com/wp-content/plugins/rpx/images/openid.png'/> Jason Grigsby http://userfirstweb.com/270/flood-warnings-via-sms/comment-page-1/#comment-1297 Jason Grigsby Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:04:16 +0000 http://userfirstweb.com/?p=270#comment-1297 I knew this sounded familiar. I thought I read someone suggesting sms for alerts. Instead, it was actually plans for U.S. alerts over SMS. "The United States plans to create a national emergency alert system that utilizes text messages that will be delivered to mobile phones. CTIA estimates over 48 billion text messages are sent each month, so regulators believe this is a good medium to use when there is a national or regional emergency." http://mobilecrunch.com/2008/04/10/emergency-text-alerts-planned-in-the-united-states/ I knew this sounded familiar. I thought I read someone suggesting sms for alerts. Instead, it was actually plans for U.S. alerts over SMS.

“The United States plans to create a national emergency alert system that utilizes text messages that will be delivered to mobile phones. CTIA estimates over 48 billion text messages are sent each month, so regulators believe this is a good medium to use when there is a national or regional emergency.”

http://mobilecrunch.com/2008/04/10/emergency-text-alerts-planned-in-the-united-states/

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