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AT&T to Push Wireless Emergency Alerts to iPhone

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Zpike

Jun 17, 2013, 4:04 PM
I've been getting emergency alerts on my GSII as long as I've had it (2 years). I just assumed that everyone got them. This is just another place where ATT and Apple are behind the curve.
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T Bone

Jun 17, 2013, 8:01 PM
That's assuming that 'emergency alert messages' are actually worth getting....in my experience, they're really not.
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dalius_maximus

Jun 17, 2013, 9:56 PM
I'm with T-bone on this one. Because of the technology they use to push the alerts, the alerts will not arrive if the device is in use or has a running data session (including background data being used by running apps, which many users may have going for extended periods, hours or even a day). Because of this, not only are the notifications a "duh" in the first place, but they often arrive heavily delayed.
If anything, it seems a poor choice for ATT to implement this right now, seeing as the media is hammering the government's involvement with Verizon. The antagonistic, but under-aware consumers that make up the majority of the subscriber base will see the alerts as "more involvement with the government." I see a lot of nasty calls in th...
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Zpike

Jun 21, 2013, 10:09 AM
What???!!! You and T-bone both miss the fact that Amber Alerts are also part of this service. And there's no way to look up in the sky and see those. Furthermore, you may know there's a storm brewing, but that doesn't necessarily mean you know there's a tornado warning in your area. It's ridiculous to assert that people who aren't glued to a television are somehow "under-aware consumers". And anyone wearing a big enough tinfoil hat to think that emergency alerts are some kind of government interference isn't going to have a cell phone anyway (and they certainly are not the majority of ATT's consumer base as you laughably assert). I really doubt that ATT has been disenfranchising its customers because its worried about those people.This is si...
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Haggard

Jun 18, 2013, 12:29 PM
To my understanding, this is on AT&T, I don't believe this was an update pushed to all iPhones, just AT&T. It was a simple carrier update to the phone when going into the settings. Wish I could disable the Presidential updates. I turned off the Amber Rose and severe weather updates. I live in California, I'd be getting endless updates.
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flagrantmisuse

Jun 18, 2013, 5:40 PM
you are correct. just att iphones. my 4s got the update yesterday and was blowing up as a result of the storms we were having at the time. i like that you can turn them off and i have yet to receive an update from our president. i'm sure he has more pressing matters to attend to.
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