No new comments can be posted. More Login. Mass SMS? Score: 4 , Interesting. Why cant emergency services just use plain old SMS service? Share twitter facebook linkedin. Score: 3. Re:it was designed for it. Score: 5 , Insightful. With regards to shootings or a bear in town, DUH! Do you really expect this to be used as a "news source"? Also, zero difference to the Emergency Broadcast System, just now putting it on an iPhone.

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Someone rush out and file a patent! Parent Share twitter facebook linkedin. Re: Score: 2. The network could do it it's part of the GSM spec, as you note , but the phones didn't have the software. My Blackberry has been getting these alerts for months now. SMS would be a horrible idea, because they are not prioritized traffic on the network, and not broadcastable. You'd have to have a machine generating SMS messages for every phone number, which would take days to get through and probably take down the network.

Re: Score: 3. So then it will be too slow instead. Re:Mass SMS? Score: 4 , Informative. I doubt it. Re: Score: 3 , Interesting. The marginal cost. Large Telcos dedicate way more hardware to billing for SMS than they do to making it work. The system is lossy due to the benign neglect. What is priceless is when they raise the per message rates. In my parts they are around. I love it that the cost per byte is higher than the total cost per byte of the Hubble telescope including launch, hardware, ground control, and even a shuttle mission to fix it.

But this is all just a. So those fixed costs are already paid for, No The reality is that fixed. You need the machines to process the SMS messages. And wires to carry them. The last mile of transport might be "free", but the rest of it isn't. If there is any measurable work done by any employee to support SMS messaging, then it's not free.

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What causes you to arbitrarily state that causes profit with other uses? Perhaps it's those other uses that are free, and SMS that is not. CB works pretty much like teletext or CC on TV so in a few seconds all phones in an area can be alerted without any extra network usage. On the other hand SMS uses paging, channel acquisition and a temporary connection.

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A flood of short messages can bloxk the network just like it happens on New Year. I believe these use Cell Broadcasts [wikipedia. So, in case of emergency we're going to disable every cell phone? Well, that should cut down on call volumes The message has to be dismissable. My only "phone" is an iPad Mini on T-Mobile, here's hoping it never gets this stupid technology.

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Should have bought a better phone. That stuff is customizable on other platforms. Very half-baked Score: 5 , Insightful. Re:Very half-baked Score: 5 , Insightful.

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Re:Very half-baked Score: 4 , Interesting. There were apocryphal, I'm sure stories of people seeing earthquake trending on twitter before they got hit. Technology is amazing regardless. Bad idea. Quite often cars are stolen with children in them - in this case there'll be license plate info as well. And it's a good idea to make note of these alerts because carjackers quite often simply abandon stolen cars with children. And there were still assholes on the roads. That's why they had to close the subways and tunnels 24 hours in advance.

It would take that long to cram it into people's thick skulls.

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Re: Score: 3 , Insightful. I've never even heard a Presidential Alert so I'm not worried about it. And the problem with a default on rather than can not be disabled?? Congratulations on your choice of Blue. When Red is in office, you guys can switch. I don't like having anything forced down my throat. That's not so bad, because I can opt out. But I can't turn off presidental alerts? It's my fucking phone. I'm libertarian-liberal and I don't think anyone should be able to force me to leave that turned on.

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Really object to emergency information? Score: 2. I, for one, do not care for this It's a few letter displayed on your phone. Get some sense of perspective, seriously. Re:Really object to emergency information? Score: 5 , Informative. Correct, my phone. My device, not theirs. I hear that if you tightly wrap your phone with tin foil, then it will disable these alerts. And the look will coordinate nicely with your hat. By the way Completely useless I've got no problem with weather or AMBER alerts since you can disable them, in fact weather alerts might actually be useful during tornado season. But just let us disable everything if we don't want it.

The entire "presidential alert" just seems like something you'd see in t. Well clearly YOU need a little more connectivity to current events.