When emergency alerts were moving to cell phones

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When emergency alerts were moving to cell phones · Proposed air date:

Dr. Dave describes a federal effort to extend emergency alerts beyond radio and television to pagers, cell phones, the Internet and email. He calls the idea sensible while asking whether networks could deliver the necessary information to every subscriber at once without overload.

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This excerpt runs from 7:43.006 to 9:04.542 within its preserved source recording.

Proposed recording date: 2006-07-15. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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