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by lotsofpulp 1282 days ago
That is unfortunate. The alert that caused me to turn them all off was even written about in the news that day. Millions of people in the entire NYC metro region had their sleep disturbed and were pissed.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/07/ambert-alert-phone-4...

I remember group chats of people discussing how to turn it off and my friends and I telling our parents how to turn them off.

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Can't you pull out your sim card when you go to bed?
Seems pretty inconvenient, plus the world is moving to eSIM. Although, I wonder if the alert system even cares about SIM. Presumably they would send it out to any device connected to the network, not just those with a SIM?