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T-Mobile Is Testing Emergency Alerts From Satellites

T-Mobile announced Wednesday that, for the first time in the United States, it has transmitted a wireless emergency alert (WEA) using satellites. The system’s initial test took place on September 5 when a simulated evacuation alert was transmitted into low Earth orbit where it was picked up by a Starlink satellite and retransmitted across a set geographic area to T-mobile…