“All of Comcast’s cable systems are now CAP...
"All of Comcast’s cable systems are now CAP compliant,” because they have the “broadband connectivity” needed to get common alerting protocol announcements, it told the FCC in updating a waiver petition. The company was among operators that asked for waivers…
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of a June 30, 2012, deadline for being able to receive emergency alert system warnings in that newer format (CD Sept 11 p1) that uses the Internet and not the broadcast daisy-chain to send out alerts. In June, “a handful of its smallest, most remote cable systems” lacked “the broadband connectivity necessary to monitor for CAP alerts,” and so a waiver was sought, the company said in a filing to the Public Safety Bureau (http://bit.ly/17jGeAc). After seeking an extension to Feb. 28, 2013, Comcast became compliant with the emergency warning rules “with a satellite-based delivery solution through EMnet” and completed that in February, said the filing Monday in docket 04-296.