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FCC Aims to Improve Usage of Mobile Emergency Alert System
By John D. McKinnon
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators are expected to push wireless carriers to improve the targeting of local emergency alerts, in hopes that public-safety officials will use the system more.
Local officials say they sometimes don't issue wireless alerts - which produce a distinctive buzzing and squawking in mobile devices - lest they needlessly alarm people who aren't in immediate danger.
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