[EAS] FCC seeks participants for WEA geotargeting test

[Ed Czarnecki]

Also a way to put a stake in the sand to try and encourage the CMSPs to make the deadline for targeting - it would be more drama (in front of the public and media) if a mobile alerting test in a major metro area had to be postponed because the carriers were not ready.

On the other hand, it does provide an opportunity to further discuss the impact of deadlines drawn up by administrative order, rather than technical committee.

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS <eas-bounces at radiolists.net> On Behalf Of Sean Donelan
Cc: sbe-eas at sbe.org

This is a clever way to bypass claims by the cellular service providers that the performance data is corporate proprietary.

   "The Bureau will not require any Participating CMS Provider to gather,
   analyze or submit data related to their performance in connection with
   any upcoming test."

The FCC approach requires more human resources by state/local agencies.
But the results would be essentially public data because anyone ordinary member of the public could collect it. It wouldn't need jailbroken phones or nonpublic equipment, just an regular smart phone and maybe a separate GPS receiver to double check the report location.

Of course, cellular service providers and smartphone OEMs already collect performance, diagnostic and analytical data on phones by default, unless the subscriber opt-out. Service providers also have a lot of expensive field equipment in vehicles driving around the country to measure the performance of their networks.  That includes performance data about WEA reception on IOS and Android phones.

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