T-Mobile Warns Against FCC's Proposed Changes to Wireless Alerts
Comments to the FCC on further changes to rules for wireless emergency alerts (see 1701100078) agree the agency needs to move with caution, T-Mobile replied in docket 15-91. “The record establishes that further study is essential before any geo-targeting mandate…
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can be considered, given that the Commission’s proposed benchmark is not realistically achievable,” T-Mobile said. “It is premature to set a specific degree of precision and establish a deadline for implementation until, at a minimum, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions has completed its standards-related work.” The record also makes clear that WEAs are “simply not capable of the many-to-one communications the Commission seeks to encourage,” T-Mobile said. “Commenters favoring multimedia alerting failed to dispel concerns that such alerts may actually delay alert delivery and disrupt WEA functionality.”