Nationwide WEA, EAS Tests Scheduled Oct. 4
The FCC agreed Thursday to a Federal Emergency Management Agency request (see 2308020047) for a waiver to do a national test of the wireless emergency alert system Oct. 4. FEMA will also do a nationwide emergency alert system test the…
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same day. All commercial mobile service (CMS) providers that participate in the WEA program are required to participate, said a notice from the Public Safety Bureau. “FEMA will initiate the test of WEA at 2:18 pm EDT ... using the National Alert classification of Alert Message,” the bureau said: “Members of the public with mobile device service from a CMS provider that participates in WEA in their areas will receive the test message, which will read ‘THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.’ The WEA alert will be transmitted in both English and Spanish in both 90 and 360 character sets.” The nationwide test of the EAS starts at 2:20 p.m. EDT. The test will use the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System and “be disseminated in English and Spanish as a Common Alerting Protocol message using the Nationwide Test of the Emergency Alert System code," the bureau said. If conditions on that date require rescheduling of the tests, they will be done Oct. 11, the bureau said.