FEMA Raises Concerns on Changes to Wireless Alerts
Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System don't believe the use of automated or mechanical parsing to compose 90-character messages is appropriate, they said about proposed FCC rule changes for wireless emergency alerts to…
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mobile phones, during a meeting with officials from the FCC Public Safety Bureau, recounted a filing. “In no case should the IPAWS system be responsible for this function,” they said. “FEMA believes that parsing a 90 character message from a 360 character message should be done by the alert originator.” The IPAWS officials also said devices should continue the practice of identifying the message “by whatever means dictated by the carrier” to eliminate duplicate messages. Carriers' approach on 90-character versus 360-character messages depends on future rules, IPAWS said. “Carriers will most likely push 90 character messages to legacy networks and 360 character messages to 4G LTE networks.” The FCC proposed at its November meeting to allow longer WEA messages, inclusion of hyperlinks and narrower distribution of alerts (see 1511190053). FEMA's filing was posted Friday in docket 15-94.