Consumers can still expect the test to look and sound very similar to the local tests of the EmergencyAlertSystem that are already conducted frequently in local markets on TV and radio.
The goal of this test is to help identify additional changes, on top of those improvements that we already know are needed, that should be made as we work to build a modern and fully accessible public emergencyalertsystem.
The government's EmergencyAlertSystem has had just such a plan in the works for a while now, and Sprint Nextel is becoming the first national carrier to trial a system capable of sending targeted, location based alerts when bad stuff goes down.