@BEER wrote:
OOOhhhhhh now I understand as to why my wife and daughter get alerts and I don't -- it's because they are on 4G while I am still on the 3G network.
It seems like an entirely ineffective emergency/crisis/disaster alert system to me.
Because 911, E911, and other Emergency Calls work on every device, every network protocol, they don't even require you have active service or an active account. There's no reason an emergency alert system shouldn't operate the same way. Every phone and every device with every kind of network compatibility, with or without a working SIM card, regardless of any other status or conditions.
And because the only thing these alert announcements accomplish is convince more and more people to find ways of circumventing and disabling the annoying alerts. This is not like obsolete systems - annoying interruptions on broadcast radio and cable television programs, air raid sirens, etc - which simply happened and had to be endured (and informed/conditioned the population) without any advance notification or preamble.
Well - now it's just part of the many SPAM messages we have to endure. And as to why they are undermining the emergency messaging service -???-----just like the spacers, it's because they can.
Because they must. The people/agencies responsible for spending your tax dollars have to occasionally demonstrate something "useful" if they want to get more of your tax dollars to spend.
