Down1
2nd February 2013, 04:37 PM
One needs to disable or opt out of this new system.
Lisa Rott was jolted from her sleep at 1:44 a.m. earlier this month in her Sarasota, Fla. home. A high-pitched tone sounded in spurts for about 10 seconds while her phone buzzed multiple times.
Initially Roth, 50, was worried something had happened to her elderly mother. Then she saw the message: "Emergency Alert: Amber Alert. An Amber Alert has been issued in your area. Please check local media."
"I thought it was spam," said Rott, who works for AT&T as a process engineer. And because her cellphone has a New Jersey number, she wasn't sure exactly where the alert originated. The next morning Rott searched online for both New Jersey and Florida incidents yielding one likely possibility -- hours away from her home.
"What are we supposed to do?" Roth said. "They're not telling us what to do, they're not even telling us what to look for in our area."
Later that morning Rott called AT&T, her service provider, and asked them how to make the "worthless" messages stop.
http://news.yahoo.com/shriek-texts-missing-kids-startle-cell-users-090653297.html
http://news.yahoo.com/shriek-texts-missing-kids-startle-cell-users-090653297.html
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/01/new-shrieking-amber-alert-system-shocks-cell-phone-users/
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/01/new-shrieking-amber-alert-system-shocks-cell-phone-users/
Lisa Rott was jolted from her sleep at 1:44 a.m. earlier this month in her Sarasota, Fla. home. A high-pitched tone sounded in spurts for about 10 seconds while her phone buzzed multiple times.
Initially Roth, 50, was worried something had happened to her elderly mother. Then she saw the message: "Emergency Alert: Amber Alert. An Amber Alert has been issued in your area. Please check local media."
"I thought it was spam," said Rott, who works for AT&T as a process engineer. And because her cellphone has a New Jersey number, she wasn't sure exactly where the alert originated. The next morning Rott searched online for both New Jersey and Florida incidents yielding one likely possibility -- hours away from her home.
"What are we supposed to do?" Roth said. "They're not telling us what to do, they're not even telling us what to look for in our area."
Later that morning Rott called AT&T, her service provider, and asked them how to make the "worthless" messages stop.
http://news.yahoo.com/shriek-texts-missing-kids-startle-cell-users-090653297.html
http://news.yahoo.com/shriek-texts-missing-kids-startle-cell-users-090653297.html
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/01/new-shrieking-amber-alert-system-shocks-cell-phone-users/
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/01/new-shrieking-amber-alert-system-shocks-cell-phone-users/