New York City is welcoming feedback from the recent test of new capability to send alerts to mobile devices in targeted geographic areas. NYC is one of the first deployments of the Personal Localized Alert Network (PLAN) (aka CMAS-Commercial Mobile Alert System). It was tested this past week.
For more info on the test, including a number of links pertinent to the test, visit this site. They're encouraging feedback from not only people who received the test texts, but from those "watching from afar" - in other words, you.
The official name of the program is the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), one of the initiatives of FEMA's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) which, by the way, has an informative video on its site about IPAWS. (CMAS is known as PLAN in NYC.)
Undoubtedly, much more info on CMAS/PLAN will come...particularly as local officials throughout the nation get the ability to use it. (Don't worry, its free for locals.)
All the best,
Rick
