California to implement cell phone alerts

California State officials said today that they expect to provide a cell phone alert system across the State within the next 12 to 14 months, writes Mopocket.

The phone would emit a sound unlike the usual ring followed by a written message appearing on the screen.

"... Officials said the alert system would not invade citizens’ privacy, since it would be a mass message sent out to all those phones that had been served by a particular communications relay tower near a danger zone, without regard to who owns the phones.”

emily | 7:58 AM | New SMS Services |
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