[EAS] Fwd: [ChicagolandSkywarn] WEA Enabled Phones to Receive Emergency Messages

[Alan Kline]

*Forcing*, no. *Making it possible*, yes.

The FCC should give the wireless carriers a choice: They're free to opt 
of CMAS, *if* they make phones available, including smartphones, with FM 
receivers enabled. Then it would be up to the user to make use of it.

ak

On 5/16/2012 3:51 PM, Mike Benonis wrote:
> I don't see any advantage to forcing consumer devices to monitor broadcast sources for emergency information (be it AM, FM, TV, or NOAA).  As has been pointed out, these signals are all local to an area--so a phone, for instance, would need to have a database for LP/NOAA stations to monitor.  This would of course also draw more from the battery.