NYC Tells FCC of Progress on Wireless Emergency Alerts

New York City officials said the city has made progress on wireless emergency alerts and thanked the FCC for pushing carriers for better geotargeting of alerts in November, said an ex parte on a meeting with Public Safety Bureau staff. “The City provided the FCC with an overview of Notify NYC, our official emergency communications system, in particular, the steps the City has taken over the past two years to implement multilingual alerting,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 15-91: “Beginning in July 2019, Notify NYC will offer most of its messages in 13 languages.”