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With some phones, if you don't tap on the alert or otherwise acknowledge it, they will keep resending as a new alert until you do. ST. LOUIS - Most of us got just one Presidential Alert on our phones last week.
No, you can't block the first-ever 'presidential alert,' a message that will be sent through the Wireless Emergency Alert system. Wednesday, October 3 at exactly 2:18 p.m. ET marks the first national use of the Wireless Emergency Alert system, or WEA.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Wireless Emergency Alerts and Emergency Alert Systems Wednesday, Oct. 3. The WEA portion of the test will begin at 2:18 p.m., and the EAS portion follows at 2:20 p.m. The WEA test message will be sent to cell phones that are connected to wireless providers participating in WEA. This is the fourth EAS nationwide test and the first national WEA test.
California now has the strongest net neutrality rules in the nation, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill during a last-minute flurry of bill signings and vetoes Sunday. A little over an hour after the announcement, the Department of Justice sued the state.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has rejected legislation that would have allowed San Francisco to open what could be the nation's first supervised drug injection sites under a pilot program. San Francisco could still choose to open such a site but it would be in violation of federal and state law.
For the first time, the FCC and Federal Emergency Management Agency will conduct a national Wireless Emergency Alert test, Oct. 3 the agencies said last Friday. The test will run simultaneously with a national EAS test, which is the fourth such test since they started in 2011.
As part of Chicago's National Preparedness Month activities, the Office of Emergency Management and Communications is reminding the residents about a critical test intended to ensure public safety officials have the methods and systems in place to deliver urgent alerts and warnings to the public in times of an emergency or disaster. On the afternoon of Thursday, September 20, 2018, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission , will conduct a nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert and Emergency Alert System .
The Federal Emergency Management Agency in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert on Thursday, Sept.
The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be testing the Emergency Alert System later this month. The test alert will go to all Emergency Alert System participants, Participating Mobile Service providers, and to the public on September 20 at 2:18 PM EDT.
A coalition of trade groups representing companies including Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc, urged a U.S. appeals court to reinstate landmark "net neutrality" rules adopted in 2015 to guarantee an open internet. In a legal filing Monday, the Internet Association, Entertainment Software Association, Computer & Communications Industry Association, and Writers Guild of America West urged the reversal of the Trump administration decision to overturn the rules in December.
SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE: The House has passed the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act , sponsored by Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, to require the Federal Communications Commission to study the possibility of creating a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system with an easy to remember phone number. Stewart said the bill was intended to "streamline and to provide easy access to potentially lifesaving resources by designating a new and very simple national three-digit dialing number, very similar to 911, for national suicide prevention and mental health crisis."
Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack successfully moved legislation through the U.S. House of Representatives this week to help farmers access "cutting-edge" broadband technology. Loebsack, representing the 2nd Congressional District, which includes southeast Iowa, wrote the Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act with Republican Rep. Bob Latta of Ohio.
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Washington. SALT LAKE CITY - A recent decision by the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission will likely scrub the deal that would have led to Salt Lake City's Fox 13 being acquired by 21st Century Fox.
A U.S. appeals court rejected on technical grounds a challenge to Federal Communications Commission ownership rules that could ease the path for Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed purchase of Tribune Media - if the deal goes forward. The Washington-based court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from opponents without considering its merits, ruling the activist groups that filed it hadn't shown they would be injured by the consolidation at the heart of their case.
President Donald Trump came to the defense of Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed merger with Tribune Media, days after the Federal Communications Commission raised "serious concerns" about the deal and began legal proceedings to challenge it on grounds the companies had misled regulators. In a tweet, Trump said Tuesday it was "so sad and unfair" that the FCC, an independent agency, did not approve the merger, a $3.9 billion transaction that would create a conservative television giant that originally hoped to reach roughly 70 percent of U.S. households.
FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Pai, a Republican, said evidence presented to the agency as part of the approval process suggested divestiture of certain television stations "would allow Sinclair to control those stations in practice, even if not in name, in violation of the law."
Orolia's McMurdo SmartFind G8 AIS Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon has been approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada . The world's first EPIRB to contain both the international 406 MHz alert frequency and the localized rescue power of the Automatic Identification System , the McMurdo SmartFind G8 AIS is now ready to order for leisure and commercial maritime use across the U.S. and Canada, following the earlier approval of the SmartFind G8 product family portfolio in Europe.
New York, July 1 - A person has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill the children of Ajit Pai, the head of the United States Federal Communications Commission , according to a court document. The person identified as Markara Man made the threat in emails sent to Pai, one of the senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration, because he was angry that the FCC had repealed net neutrality, the affidavit filed in connection with the case by a law enforcement in a Virginia court said.
California legislation that was billed as one of the nation's most aggressive efforts to revive net neutrality was watered down during a tense legislative hearing Wednesday, leading the author to repudiate what he called a "mutilated" bill. Sen. Scott Wiener has been pushing legislation to revive regulations repealed last year by the Federal Communications Commission that prevented internet companies from exercising more control over what people watch and see over the internet.
Protesters fighting to save net neutrality rally outside the Verizon store on Market Street in San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Verizon stores across the country were sites for coordinated protests one week before the FCC votes on the net neutrality issue.