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This "enhanced geotargeting" relies on new smartphone technology and will be increasingly available as consumers upgrade their devices. Now, as of December 2019, participating wireless providers must geographically target alerts to technologically compatible phones even more: they must deliver the alerts to the area specified by the alert originator with no more than a 1/10 of a mile overshoot.
Next, beginning in 2017, participating wireless providers were required to transmit alerts to a geographic area that best approximated the area affected by the emergency, even if it was smaller than a county. When the WEA program launched, participating wireless providers were generally required to send the alerts to a geographic area no larger than the county or counties affected by the emergency. WEA geographic precision is continuously improving. Wireless companies volunteer to participate in WEA, which is the result of a unique public/private partnership between the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the FCC, and the United States wireless industry in order to enhance public safety. The Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN) Act established WEA in 2008 and it became operational in 2012. WEA enables government officials to target emergency alerts to specific geographic areas – lower Manhattan in New York, for example. WEA is a public safety system that allows customers who own compatible mobile devices to receive geographically targeted, text-like messages alerting them of imminent threats to safety in their area. Since its launch in 2012, the WEA system has been used more than 70,000 times to warn the public about dangerous weather, missing children, and other critical situations – all through alerts on compatible cell phones and other mobile devices. The Wireless Emergency Alerts system is an essential part of America's emergency preparedness.
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