WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -- Federal Communications Commission has issued a rule called: Wireless Emergency Alerts and the Emergency Alert System.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on Dec. 10 by Zenji Nakazawa, Chief, Public Safety Homeland Security Bureau.
Summary: In this document, as directed by the Federal Communications Commission (Commission), the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) adopts implementation parameters for multilingual Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). The Bureau is requiring commercial mobile service providers who participate in WEA (Participating CMS Providers) to support multilingual templates for the most commonly issued and most time-sensitive types of alerts in English, the next thirteen most...