CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings September 30, 2016
Improve wea message content, delivery, training and outreach. With respect to message content, we would increase the maximum message length from 90 to 360 characters for 4g, lte and future networks. Wed significantly improve the quality of information that alert originators are able to transmit by requiring participating wireless carriers to support embedded urls and phone numbers in all wea messages, including amber alerts within one year of the rules publication in the federal register. This would enable the public to view a photo or place a call to authorities by simply clicking on a link i...