Verizon Updates Filing on Aug. WEA Test
Verizon’s broadcast message center (BMC) performed “as we would have expected, including the duration between the BMC’s receipt of the English and Spanish language versions of the message” from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, during the August wireless emergency alert…
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system test (see 2108260046), the carrier said in a letter to the FCC, posted Thursday in docket 15-91. The time required “reflected the need to map the alert to the large number of sites in Verizon’s nationwide network, to determine the appropriate [mobility management entity] (which directs WEAs to associated cell sites), and to process both the English and Spanish language text versions of the message,” it said: The Public Safety Bureau asked that the information be filed.