Comcast asked the FCC to extend a waiver from the...
Comcast asked the FCC to extend a waiver from the government’s Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) requirements at some of its smallest and furthest-flung cable systems. In a letter to the agency’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau chief, the country’s…
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largest cable operator requested another two months beyond the six it already got before it must comply with the requirements at those systems (http://xrl.us/bn77tk). The waiver is to expire Monday and covers about 0.2 percent of Comcast’s total subscriber base, it said. Comcast said the systems at issue still lack broadband hook ups, which are needed for CAP-compliant Emergency Alert System (EAS) connectivity. It said it has installed the necessary equipment -- Communications Laboratories’ Emergency Management Communications Network satellite system -- but it discovered interoperability and software problems while testing the system. Its EAS equipment vendors are already working on a software update, but “out of an abundance of caution, Comcast requests further time so as to accommodate any final unanticipated complications,” it said.