Data / Federal rules / 2024-07401
Wireless Emergency Alerts; Regarding the Emergency Alert System
The Federal Communications Commission published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on May 13, 2024. Comments closed on June 12, 2024.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) seeks comment on specific mechanisms to implement multilingual Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), as directed by the Federal Communications Commission. The Bureau proposes to require commercial mobile service providers participating in WEA (Participating CMS Providers) to support a set of pre-translated WEA messages in English, the 13 most commonly spoken languages in the United States, and American Sign Language (ASL), that would be pre-installed and stored on mobile devices. These messages--called templates--would be displayed at the option of the alert originator. The Bureau also seeks comment on support for form-fillable templates that would include information specific to the particular emergency. Finally, the Bureau seeks comment on whether Participating CMS Providers' device offerings should support templates in additional languages.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-07401
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- May 13, 2024
- Comments due
- June 12, 2024
- Dates
- Comments are due on or before June 12, 2024 and reply comments are due on or before July 12, 2024.
- Docket
- PS Docket No. 15-91; PS Docket No. 15-94; DA 24-137 FR ID 210081
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 10
- Topics
- Communications equipment; Emergency preparedness
- Pages
- 89
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