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Summary The alerts will be text-like messages of 90 characters or less.
US plans to launch a new mobile telephone emergency alert system in New York City and Washington DC by the end of the year.The system that will deliver text-like emergency messages from President Barack Obama and key government agencies to mobile phone users. Urgent messages about terrorist threats, natural disasters, and other emergency events will be sent through participating carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, to enabled mobile devices.Messages will be sent to enable devices in targeted geographic areas rather than to all registered users. Smartphones are currently the only cell phones that have the technological capability of receiving the messages.
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