[EAS] FCC Addresses FEMA/Ad Council PSA Attention SignalConcerns

[Ed Czarnecki]

They may not have had to buy an EAS box, but the participating mobile
carriers did have to do a fair amount of work to support the links between
their POPs and the IPAWS aggregator, develop their own internal software and
filters, and - importantly - have the data/cell broadcast capability enabled
to support CMAS.

There have been a few comments about the proportion of mobile providers
participating/non-participating in CMAS.  Consider the case of the small to
mid-sized mobile operator ... the infrastructure expense to support CMAS may
just not have been sustainable.  If these guys could get away with investing
a couple of thousand per cell site, rather than the millions that would have
been needed to upgrade their core systems, I'm sure they'd be happy with
that idea.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Gary Glaenzer
SignalConcerns

From: "Dennis Blais" <blais.dennis at gmail.com>

>I don't see how this is wrong on any level, let alone many levels.  
>Isn't  the goal here to alert the public to an emergency?  Why are you 
>making  this  a "turf war" with the cell phone industry? In this day 
>and age, a person  not  at home, or in a vehicle stands a better chance 
>of being warned by a cell  phone, than by broadcasters.  Like it or 
>not, that's just the way it is.

is the FCC going to force each and every cell phone company to buy an EAS
box for each and every cell site ?

seems to me that would only be fair

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