Suddenlink Communications and Uno Radio Group separately sought FCC waivers of...
Suddenlink Communications and Uno Radio Group separately sought FCC waivers of emergency alert system rules for the newer common alerting protocol (CAP), which all EAS participants must use to receive and pass along messages by month’s end (CD June 18…
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p10). Suddenlink said it’s already bought CAP-compliant equipment for 57 of its 62 smallest cable systems (http://xrl.us/bncdce), but needs 90 more days to “complete the installation and testing process.” The other five systems are among its “smallest, most remote cable headends,” and it requests six-month waivers because the sites lack the broadband “necessary to reliably receive CAP-formatted alerts,” Suddenlink said. The cable operator said it’s spent more than a half-million dollars since 2011 updating its “legacy” EAS equipment to CAP-compliant hardware and software upgrades, as a result of which 98 percent of its subscribers will be able to receive CAP-formatted messages by month’s end. Puerto Rico-based Uno asked (http://xrl.us/bncdc5) for waivers for its 14 stations because of “an unexpected delay in delivery of equipment necessary for compliance,” resulting in the original delivery date of June 15 being pushed back to late July or early August because of the vendor’s “shipping issues and overwhelming demand.” Uno will install, test and make the equipment operational “promptly” after it receives it, and then notify the FCC, it said.