From: fatkinson@mishmash.com   
      
   > From: submissions@telecom-digest.org on behalf of John Levine   
   >    
      
   > It appears that Garrett Wollman  said:   
   >> And guess what? Your phone gets the same emergency alerts as the radio   
   >> stations do.  That excuse simply doesn't hold water any more.   
      
   > I'm guessing you don't spend a lot of time driving around out in the   
   > boondocks.   
      
   > As soon as you get off main roads in a hilly area, cell signals are   
   > hit and miss. Here in not particularly rural upstate NY I can show   
   > you places on state highways where there's no cell signal at all.  I   
   > expect western Mass is the same way.   
      
   The problem is that if our Internet goes down, we won't get those alerts.   
      
   The entire AM band is not going down all at once.   
      
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