Here's how the wireless emergency alerts, or WEAS, are supposed to work: Authorized national, state, or local authorities send them through FEMA's warning system to a specific geographic zone ...

The Federal Communications Commission will now require commercial mobile service providers that participate in Wireless Emergency Alerts to use multilingual templates. In issuing final rules, it ...

The FCC, in the words of soon-to-depart Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, has taken “a major step forward” in expanding multilingual Wireless Emergency Alerts in response to public feedback.

Congressman Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, hopes this investigation will prevent tragedy in future emergencies and minimize ...

Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created templates to enable wireless emergency alerts on mobile devices to be displayed in a greater number of languages, after receiving public feedback on ...