CTIA Raises Concerns on Draft Alerting NPRM
CTIA urged the FCC to take costs into consideration as it considers an NPRM on wireless emergency alerts and the emergency alert system, set for a commissioner vote Thursday (see 2210060062). “CTIA understands the Commission’s interest in continuing to examine…
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alerting security and avoiding false alerts,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 15-94. “The Commission will need to carefully consider the costs and benefits of new authentication requirements,” CTIA said: “Developing new cryptographic standards to enable authentication capabilities would require a much larger investment of time and resources than what is currently contemplated in the Draft Alerting Security NPRM. Moreover, such requirements could negatively impact the timely and reliable delivery of WEAs.”