UNITED STATES (CBS) — Your electronic devices may alarm you today — but there’s a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m.

Department of Telecommunications and National Disaster Management Authority are conducting a nationwide drill of the Cell Broadcast Alert System. Test alerts—loud beeps/vibrations and messages in ...

If your smartphone suddenly emits a loud warning tone on May 2, there’s no need to worry. The government is rolling out a nationwide test of a new mobile-based disaster alert system designed to ...

Shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, phones across Los Angeles County lighted up with an emergency alert test, the latest example of challenges that government officials are experiencing with wireless ...

National Disaster Management Authority, working with the Department of Telecommunications, is running nationwide trials of a new Cell Broadcast alert system that can push real-time emergency warnings ...

This morning, many people in India received a loud alert from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) regarding a test of a new emergency alert system called Cell Broadcast Alert, scheduled ...

Did your mobile phone just sound an alarm and receive an emergency alert? If yes, do not panic! Millions of users received an alert today as part of a nationwide test of the Cell Broadcast Alert ...