CPUC Seeks Comment After WEA Test Delivered the Simulated Warning 51% of the Time
The California Public Utilities Commission sought comment on a report by Sonoma County and Santa Rosa on a September test of wireless emergency alerting. “The exercise allowed Emergency Managers and residents to experience a live test of the communications method…
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that Sonoma County and the city of Santa Rosa will use in the event of an emergency,” the CPUC said: The report found that a call delivered a message to a person or answering machine 51 percent of the time for the almost 300,000 cellphone numbers in the database used for notification. “The test resulted in a 38 percent increase in subscribers to the database,” the CPUC said. “The After-Action Report also cited differences in how the telecommunications providers (e.g., AT&T and Verizon) distributed wireless emergency alerts and found inconsistent policies among the providers for issuing alerts.” Comments are due Feb. 22, replies March 1, in Rulemaking 18-03-011.