The Mobile EAS Coalition urged the FCC to...

The Mobile EAS Coalition urged the FCC to consider a more holistic and integrated approach to improving emergency notification procedures as it looks to improve wireless network reliability. This includes encouraging the voluntary deployment of M-EAS by TV broadcasters “and voluntary inclusion of M-EAS receiving capability in the devices distributed by wireless carriers,” the coalition said in comments in docket 13-239 (http://bit.ly/19LDSkP). The coalition asked the commission to look beyond the potential to improve the wireless broadband infrastructure itself, “and create incentives to improve overall emergency communications to citizens,” it said. The FCC also should support the recommendations of the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council III and embrace the dual use opportunity presented by the M-EAS system, it said.