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FCC Releases Small-Entity Guide for Wireless Emergency Alerts

The FCC released Monday a small-entity compliance guide on recent changes to wireless emergency alert rules (see 2502270042). “Participating wireless providers must support an alert originator’s selection of whether a WEA message will be presented silently, i.e., without triggering the…

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common audio attention, the common vibration cadence, or both, in the mobile device presenting the WEA Alert Message,” the guide says. “If the alert originator indicates that a specific alert should not play the attention signal and should not cause the device to vibrate, then participating wireless providers should send those instructions to the device in an appropriate manner resulting in the device executing the instructions.”