[EAS] WEA results?

[Alex Hartman]

I talked with our local cell contractor today about it. New towers and new equipment (last 18 months), the 4 big providers are telling them to enable the WEA system in the installation of the tower. But he did say that a lot of the older towers, that was not a requirement for many carriers, biggest was AT&T who specifically didn't want it enabled. So it was hit and miss here depending on where you were in town. Older part? Nope. Newer part, yep. T-Mo, Sprint, VZW, and MVNOs thereof all got it around the same time. I watched a college lecture hall of 1200 students blow up at the same time. :)

AFAIK, WEA is voluntary for the carriers, not mandatory. (Double-standard much?)

Now to figure out why my local LP1 and LP2 didn't relay, and for some reason a lot of Sage units here didn't get the IPAWS message either. (They errored out for some reason)

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Alex Hartman

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 8:38 PM David Turnmire <EASsbeList at cableone.net> wrote:
>Suzanne,
>I agree there are multiple variables.  For what it is worth, I know
>someone with exact same model phone as I have, both of us using Verizon,
>but he received it and I didn't.  I had a good 4G signal... sitting at
>my office desk where I routinely get email/etc via my cell.  On the
>other hand... I'm on the opposite end of the state.  On the other
>hand... I was in the same room as another Verizon user who DID receive
>it.  So it seems unlikely to be "equipment problems" in the sense of
>something at the local tower.  But... I don't know much about the cell
>phone infrastructure...

>To your other point... I thought I heard somewhere that the cell
>companies were obliged to provide info to emergency management if they
>request it.  I'm sure there is some bureaucratic hoops... special forms
>or whatever.  Can anyone here address that point with some authority?

>Dave

>On 10/3/2018 4:10 PM, Suzanne Goucher wrote:
>> It's going to be very difficult to parse the WEA portion of this test.  The cell companies might report equipment problems or failure-to-relay in some places (IF they were required to report at all, which I don't think they are).  But there's so much variance between cell phones themselves that it will be impossible to determine whether a failure to receive was on the part of the cell company or of the phone.

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