Alert SouthBay Gets FCC Waiver for Wireless Alerting Test
The FCC Public Safety Bureau Tuesday approved a waiver request by Alert SouthBay allowing wireless carriers to participate in a wireless emergency alert test in Los Angeles County's South Bay region. The test was scheduled to start at 11:20 a.m.…
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PSD that day. “We are persuaded it is in the public interest to allow ... Alert SouthBay to test WEA’s performance over the County’s variety of geographic and demographic conditions, especially considering recent land movement and landslides, as well as the prevalent high fire risk,” the bureau said in post in docket 15-91. Alert SouthBay later confirmed the test took place.