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Also: Great. FEMA. At least messing around with texting isn't likely to allow them to kill people.]]>Jun 5th 2008 7:54AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/Jun 5th 2008 8:59AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/
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.]]>Jun 5th 2008 12:01PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/
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?]]>Jun 5th 2008 12:07PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/Jun 5th 2008 3:11PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/05/fema-dont-worry-about-national-sms-alert-system-we-gots-it/Jun 14th 2008 12:00AM