The Federal Communications Commission will now require commercial mobile service providers that participate in Wireless Emergency Alerts to use multilingual templates. In issuing final rules, it ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As part of its tentative agenda for the February Open Commission Meeting, Federal Communications Commission has announced that it will vote on a proposal to increase the accessibility ...

The FCC, in the words of soon-to-depart Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, has taken “a major step forward” in expanding multilingual Wireless Emergency Alerts in response to public feedback. As such, ...

The FCC’s proposal for more multilingual EAS announcements has been met with skepticism from stakeholders worried about the complications of implementing the technology to carry out the FCC’s wishes.

A plan to implement multilingual alerts during natural disasters was put on hold only five months after the deadly fires in Los Angeles California Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán is urging the Federal ...

The Wireless Emergency Alert system had its third nationwide test on Oct. 4, 2023. The Wireless Emergency Alert system is a public safety system that allows authorities to alert people via their ...