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FCC Tells Irvine to Use State/Local WEA for October Test

The FCC Public Safety Bureau denied waiver of wireless emergency alert rules to Irvine, California. The locale asked to permit commercial mobile service providers to participate in an end-to-end WEA test Oct. 15 using the public safety alert category. Instead,…

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it should “move forward with the scheduled test using the available State/Local WEA Test category,” said the bureau Friday, arguing the city failed to explain why it couldn’t do that.