ATIS Making WEA Geotargeting Recommendations
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions proposed practices that would help carriers improve the geographic accuracy of wireless emergency alerts. The document was shared with shareholders but hasn’t been made public, an ATIS spokesperson said. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai praised…
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the development Wednesday: WEAs “are a more powerful public safety tool than ever before, but I’ve been clear that more should be done to improve the geographic accuracy of these life-saving messages." Pai asked ATIS’ Wireless Technologies Systems Committee to develop the best practices in September (see 2009100010). A few weeks later, ATIS said it was preparing a white paper (see 2010010055). The report “presents a detailed explanation, accompanied by illustrations, of the broadcast characteristics and other factors that drive the results of the cell/sector selection by the Commercial Mobile Service Providers when building the broadcast for a given alert,” ATIS said. “The white paper is part of a robust standardization effort around WEAs that ATIS is leading.”