CCA Meets With FCC on Problems Complying With New Alerting Rules

Competitive Carriers Association representatives met with FCC Public Safety Bureau staff and aides to all five FCC commissioners to discuss the group’s request that the regulator extend the deadline on new requirements for wireless emergency alerts by at least a year (see 1708160063). “Technical capabilities necessary to implement embedded references could result in increased network congestion and undermine network performance during times of emergency,” said Thursday's filing in docket 15-91. “This will overtax vital control channels normally used to place and receive voice calls and text messages when an alert is deployed.”