NCTA Opposes Wireless Alert Requirements for MVNOs
NCTA urged the FCC to refrain from imposing wireless emergency alert requirements on mobile virtual network operators. “Absent ownership or control of the underlying mobile wireless networks that support the transmission of WEA messages MVNOs lack the ability to provide…
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information about the WEA capabilities of those networks,” said a filing Friday in docket 15-91. “Requiring MVNOs to elect whether to participate in WEA or to otherwise disclose the WEA capabilities of the networks on which they offer mobile wireless service on a resale basis would therefore create the false impression for consumers that MVNOs have access to such information from network owners and/or control over networks owners’ participation in WEA,” NCTA said: Any requirement to submit information about the WEA capabilities of MVNOs would also “create a redundant regulatory burden with no public interest benefit.”