> On Oct 4, 2023, at 3:27 PM, Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 12:25 PM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com > <mailto:s...@donelan.com>> wrote: >> >> Emergency alerts are built into all android, ios and other mobile phones >> sold in almost every country during the last 5 years. GSM standards are >> global. The U.S. finally changed "presidential alert" to "national alert" >> recently. > > Well, today's alert still showed up as "Presidential Alert", so I guess the > US hasn't quite finished changing over yet. ^_^; > (Samsung Galaxy phone)
Since only the President or the Director of FEMA can issue it…. It’s not too terrible.
