[EAS] FCC seeks participants for WEA geotargeting test

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> The bill went into committee as a broadcast funding bill, and through 
> the magic of lobbying, in a few short days it came out as a 
> recommendation for a commercial mobile alerting system (with a clause 
> left in place for public TV).  I was there when the bill was written 
> and introduced, and when we found out it had been altered, and at the 
> FCC when we figured out where public TV fit with the amended bill.

That was during the gap when I was working on other things (i.e. pre-2005 
I was extremely interested in how EAS would work for IPTV, post-2015 I 
started following EAS/WEA activites again). People at different 
organizations (cellular engineers vs. broadcast engineers vs. emergency 
managers vs. communication regulators) have told be different stories 
about what happened with the WARN act during 2005-2006.

But everyone agrees they were surprised by what happened.

The WARN act was pre-iPhone smartphones. Steve Jobs announced the first 
iPhone in 2007.  I don't think WEA or WARN or even IPAWS has turned out 
the way anyone was expecting in 2006.