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  2. Emergency test alert is set to ping cell phones nationwide ...

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    An emergency test alert will go out to cell phones nationwide Wednesday morning, the San Luis Obispo County Office of Emergency Services said in a social media post. But you need to turn on a ...

  3. Be prepared: An emergency alert test will hit your cellphone ...

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    Get ready to hear an emergency alert test go off on your smartphone at 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4 — but don't panic. Millions of us will hear the same test going off on all of our phones ...

  4. Here’s why some Americans didn’t receive the national ...

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    A text message was sent to every TV, radio and mobile phone in the US at around 2.20pm ET on Wednesday as the federal government tested its Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts.

  5. Enhanced 911 - Wikipedia

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    After a national test of Wireless Emergency Alerts (live since 2012) on 3 October 2018, a number of rumours and false statements spread on social media. Among them a tweet by John McAfee that went viral , in which McAfee claimed that the "Presidential alert" involved the E911 system, and that smartphones have a "E911 chip" capable of giving the ...

  6. Wireless Emergency Alerts - Wikipedia

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    An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...

  7. Emergency Mobile Alert - Wikipedia

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    The reach of the Control Cell Broadcast message among New Zealanders who have access to a mobile phone has increased since the first test message resulting that on 24 November 2019 8 out of 10 mobile handsets (79%) received a test emergency alert message sent out by Civil Defence and a further eight (8%) percent didn’t personally receive the ...

  8. Why everyone’s phone will alarm at 2:20 pm ET on Wednesday

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    The first-ever test of the Emergency Alert System occurred more than a decade ago, in 2011. ... associated with mobile emergency alert systems that hit cell phones.

  9. T-Mobile data breach - Wikipedia

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    T-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator and is the second largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 127.5 million subscribers as of September 30, 2024. T-Mobile had previously suffered data breaches in 2009. 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.