FEMA: don't worry about national SMS alert system, we gots it

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Kumar @ Jun 5th 2008 12:01PM

Though it may not sound quite right, we'd all be better off if homeland security forced all of the wireless carriers to use the same frequencies. Then big fat gov could take over cell sites/ charge carriers for use/ and reduce the towers by half (no need for cdma).

Aside from the specter of big brother snooping, then we'd all be free to buy whatever phone we wanted and then carrier shop, so they could stop screwwwing us over if they knew we could take our phone with us.

Oh yeah, and it would also make it easier for emergency sms notifications, i.e., send a text to everyone in the cell radii in a county that's under a tornado warning, since we all know you can't hear the sirens over a storm and modern housing insulation.

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dramamoose @ Jun 5th 2008 12:07PM

Aside from big brother concerns, then yes, you are correct. But I. for one, support anything that doesn't belong to the feds.

And even if they didn't own the sites/towers, the companies could still charge for service, not to mention the fact that those charges go to building and maintaining a cellphone network. Want an example? Compare any toll-based road to a public highway. Chances are that the toll road is going to be better maintained.

The last question I have: where exactly would congress's authority be here?

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