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.

Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after the fires first began to burn through their neighborhoods.

Go to settings and use the search function to find Emergency Alerts. Under "Wireless Emergency Alerts," turn on the ability to allow alerts.

Thirteen years after its introduction, the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system—touted by the FCC as an “essential part of America’s emergency preparedness”—still suffers from performance anxiety.

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 ...