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The FCC said it unanimously adopted an order creating rules...

The FCC said it unanimously adopted an order creating rules to set up national emergency alert system (EAS) test, as expected (CD Feb 2 p3). The national test, whose timing hasn’t been set, will require EAS participants to receive and…

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transmit a live code that includes a presidential alert message, the commission said. The test will help the FCC, Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service judge the current EAS system and identify improvements needed “particularly as broadband technologies continue to emerge,” the FCC said.