WEA are usually considered the "sledgehammer" for safety communications and utilize cell towers to distribute notifications like Amber Alerts or Silver Alerts. "Every carrier has different ...
Los Angeles County officials are calling for an independent investigation to review the emergency alert system used during ...
“Wireless emergency alerts are only one of several means of ... His partner headed to her sister’s apartment in Silver Lake in a separate vehicle. He drove away to find a place to temporarily ...
(TNS) — When the federal government in 2012 launched Wireless Emergency Alerts — a new system that allowed officials to send loud, screeching alarms to cellphones across a large area — many ...
The Federal Communications Commission will now require commercial mobile service providers that participate in Wireless Emergency Alerts to use multilingual templates. In issuing final rules, it ...
The FCC, in the words of soon-to-depart Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, has taken “a major step forward” in expanding multilingual Wireless Emergency Alerts in response to public feedback.
David McNew/Getty Days after 17 people were killed in the Eaton Fire, Los Angeles County officials and residents in Altadena are questioning the efficacy of wireless emergency alerts that called ...