[EAS] Interesting Blog Post: Five Reasons Why WEA Alerts are not Perfect

[Dave Turnmire]

On 6/11/2013 6:45 AM, Richard Rudman wrote:
> ...There's a sixth reason: The transport layer for WEA and other short form warnings is the Internet.
...
That isn't entirely true... or at least a plan is in process to resolve 
that.  Public television stations have been directed by the FCC to 
provide some of their DTV bandwidth as a backup path for getting WEA 
alerts distributed to cellular providers.  That equipment has been 
purchased and is largely in place. I don't have the latest time table 
for "going live", but the work is in progress. Take a look at:  
http://www.pbs.org/about/WARN/

Dave