{"id":3581,"date":"2017-11-09T23:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microdium.net\/public\/not-deploying-available-technology-in-wireless-emergency-alerts-is-costing-us-lives\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T23:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:10:51","slug":"not-deploying-available-technology-in-wireless-emergency-alerts-is-costing-us-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2017\/11\/09\/not-deploying-available-technology-in-wireless-emergency-alerts-is-costing-us-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Deploying Available Technology in Wireless Emergency Alerts Is \u2018Costing us Lives\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microdium.net\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1cd006bd34bec881b59295f32fb90a8c_S.jpg\" alt=\"Not Deploying Available Technology in Wireless Emergency Alerts Is &#x2018;Costing us Lives&#x2019;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>On the heels of the devastating wildfires in Northern California, hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria, the FCC rejected the five largest wireless carriers\u2019 requests for more time to implement upgrades to Wireless Emergency Alerts.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>It was September 2016 when the FCC adopted rules to enhance wireless alerts, including increasing the maximum length of messages from 90 characters to 360 characters and requiring that providers support embedding phone numbers and URLs in alerts.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) sought delays in implementing the new rules. The FCC finally rejected the industry\u2019s reconsideration of the rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing that it took four disasters to make this come about,\u201d retired Adm. David Simpson, former FCC public safety and homeland security bureau chief told the San Francisco Examiner. \u201cIt should be an embarrassment to the commission, but it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/em\/disaster\/Not-Deploying-Available-Technology-in-Wireless-Emergency-Alerts-Is-Costing-us-Lives.html\">http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/em\/disaster\/Not-Deploying-Available-Technology-in-Wireless-Emergency-Alerts-Is-Costing-us-Lives.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSource: DRJ New feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of the devastating wildfires in Northern California, hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria, the FCC rejected the five largest wireless carriers\u2019 requests for more time to implement upgrades to Wireless Emergency Alerts. &#013; It was September 2016 when the FCC adopted rules to enhance wireless alerts, including increasing the maximum length of messages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3582,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-recovery-cybersecurity-news-malaysia","tag-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}