Wireless Carriers Get Break on Geotargeting of Early Earthquake Warnings
The FCC Public Safety Bureau granted a waiver allowing wireless carriers to forego enhanced geotargeting for earthquake early warnings (EEWs) by the U.S. Geological Survey. “USGS has identified the need for this waiver to allow their EEWs to reach the…
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public as quickly as possible, and to ensure that related Public Safety Messages are distributed to the same geographic area as the initial EEW,” the bureau said in docket 15-91: “Given the characteristics and impacts of earthquakes, we are persuaded that the time saved by best approximating the target area would deliver significant public interest benefits of the kind contemplated by the Commission’s rules.”