This isn't a monthly test to make sure an emergency system is working.
I didn't say it was a monthly test, I said it was akin to the Emergency Broadcast System that most of us only recall as having tests on our TV stations. It is the same thing, a national emergency warning system.
Don't overestimate everyone else's ability to be as batshit crazy as you. This has nothing to do with politics.
No, the whole point of the presidential alert system is to be able to communicate with citizens if national crisis happens.
The FCC took a number of steps in facilitating the ability of consumers to receive emergency alerts through their wireless phones. In
2008, the Commission issued a series of orders adopting requirements for a Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), a system by which commercial mobile service (CMS) providers may transmit emergency alerts to their subscribers, if they choose to do so.
Under the rules adopted by the FCC:
- The CMAS would consist of an end-to-end system by which an Alert Aggregator/Gateway would receive, authenticate, validate and format Federal, state, tribal and local alerts and then forward them to the appropriate CMS Provider Gateway. The CMS Provider Gateway and associated infrastructure would process the alerts and transmit them to subscriber handsets.
- Subscribers could receive up to three classes of text-based alerts, such as Presidential, Imminent Threat (e.g., tornado), and Amber Alerts.
Funny shit eh, according to that KatzandDogs retard's irrational rants Obama must have been running the FCC before he even took office.
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