[EAS] US Cellular Apologizes

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Bill Ruck wrote:
> Bottom line is any CAP / EAS / IPAWS message that is sent out to the public 
> must be official.
>
> There is no such thing as fool-proof.  Fools are far too ingenious.

Trying to outwit fools is a losing battle.  Officials will just use real 
emergency codes for "test" messages.

For example, Washington State uses CEM codes for its test message, even 
though the FCC rules do not allow them to send test messages through WEA 
yet.

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