3G Americas is an organization that unites mobile operators and manufacturers in the Americas to provide a single voice to represent the GSM family of wireless technologies – GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS/HSDPA.

3G Americas is exploring the policy issues that must be considered as well as the near term and future technical capabilities that could be proposed for cellular wireless emergency alerts as a component of an effective multi-technology approach for a national alert system in the United States.