Pentagon Considers Turning Nation’s Cellphones into Walkie-Talkies During Emergencies

From: Nextgov

By Aliya Sternstein

Let’s say it’s 2016 and the government has a message to get out to the public — ISIS is believed to be waging an attack on cellphone towers in the United States. How can the feds communicate that to a population of cord cutters when the towers are down?

That hypothetical scenario is one of the problems the government and telecommunications providers are grappling with, as they strategize how to maintain the integrity of emergency communications in an increasingly wireless world.

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