Emergency Alert System

I read this and can't determine if the suburbs of those cities are covered by WEA or CMAS.  Do you have additional information jamileh?  I'm in the Washington DC area, MD suburbs.

Another thing to remember about this - currenlty only certain devices support CMAS. As of the first of the year only the following phones have the capabilities

• Samsung Galaxy SII (SGH-i777)
• Samsung Captivate Glide (SGH-i927)
• Motorola Atrix 2 (mb865)

My list is a little dated so you might want to check with the weather service

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@21stNow wrote:

I read this and can't determine if the suburbs of those cities are covered by WEA or CMAS.  Do you have additional information jamileh?  I'm in the Washington DC area, MD suburbs.

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I'll have to do a little research to find out more info. 

I have a Galaxy S III, which you would think would have it (as the Galaxy S II has it).  There are reports of CMAS messages going out, and of course, mine doesn't seem to be receiving them.  I consider it a major fail on AT&T's part, in an effort to focus on AT&T-specific features/software that a small fraction of us really use ahead of safety, especially since other carriers with the Galaxy S III have CMAS enabled.

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@heichers wrote:

I have a Galaxy S III, which you would think would have it (as the Galaxy S II has it).  There are reports of CMAS messages going out, and of course, mine doesn't seem to be receiving them.  I consider it a major fail on AT&T's part, in an effort to focus on AT&T-specific features/software that a small fraction of us really use ahead of safety, especially since other carriers with the Galaxy S III have CMAS enabled.

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Do you live in any of these areas?

Currently AT&T offers emergency alerts in NYC, Washington DC and Portland, Oregon. We are actively working to expand this service to other areas.

If you look at Jamileh;s post in this same thread you would have seen it

How do you sign up for these wireless emergency alerts. No ware in the link does it say how to sign up?

Any updates on this? This is an important missing function no AT&T iphones.

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@the gryphon wrote:

Any updates on this? This is an important missing function no AT&T iphones.

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It appears to also require a IOS upgrade on the iphone, it showed up on the verizon corporate phone after the 6.1.2 upgrade that was just pushed out to CDMA based Iphones - the 4S and the 5. Appears to be a question to Apple, since ATT supports it on specific phones