EAS Participants Get Extension to Update Certificate
The FCC Public Safety Bureau will allow emergency alert system participants unable to update certificate information for their EAS devices for the Integrated Public Alert Warning System by the Friday expiration to continue operating their equipment through Jan. 7 without…
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additional FCC authority, said a public notice Tuesday. Though a replacement certificate was issued Oct. 28, the Federal Emergency Management Agency "and EAS Participants are concerned that this may not provide sufficient time to update all EAS devices,” the PN said. EAS participants that can’t complete installation of the new certificate by Jan. 7 must request additional time, the PN said. The certificate issue doesn’t affect reception of alert messages using the legacy, daisy chain system, the PN said.