The FCC Public Safety Bureau denied requests by the Rural...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau denied requests by the Rural Cellular Association and Rural Telecommunications Group for blanket waivers of the April 7 deadline for carriers that elected to do so to have the capability to transmit Commercial Mobile Alert…
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System (CMAS) alerts to subscribers through their wireless devices. Both groups had sought waivers of the now-passed deadline on behalf of their members. “We find that neither RCA nor RTG has provided sufficient information to warrant a waiver ... of the deadline for either the wireless industry generally or their member carriers in particular,” the order said (http://xrl.us/bnja7n). “Their petitions fail to provide sufficient facts by which we can determine whether any particular carrier acted in a timely and diligent manner in order to meet the April 7, 2012 deadline.” The bureau approved waiver requests by various other smaller carriers, including MetroPCS and Leap. But it denied a request by American Messaging. “American elected to participate in CMAS in 2008, and states that technical issues in its network prevented it from meeting the ... deadline,” the order said. “However, American does not explain with particularity what those issues were, or why it could not have addressed those technical issues in time to meet the deadline. Thus, we find that American has not met the criteria for grant of its requested waiver of the April 7 deadline and therefore, we deny its petition, but do so without prejudice for American to refile its petition in a manner that states with specificity the reasons for its request."