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2. Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act - Wikipedia

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   To ensure a comprehensive approach to emergency service throughout the country, the 911 Act directs the FCC to make 911 the universal emergency number for wireline and wireless telephone service and to establish appropriate transition periods for areas in which 911 is not in use as an emergency telephone number on the date of enactment of the ...

3. Integrated Public Alert and Warning System - Wikipedia

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   Architecture of IPAWS. The program is organized and funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security. [4] The system allows for alerts to be originated by Federal, State, local and tribal officials, and subsequently disseminated to the public using a range of national and local alerting systems including EAS, CMAS and NWR. [5]

4. Wireless Emergency Alerts - Wikipedia

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   An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...

5. Emergency text messaging services - Wikipedia

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   Emergency text messaging services are a technology that enables emergency call operators to receive text messages. [1] Its use is encouraged for people with hearing impairment or who have trouble speaking; it can also be used for situations when calling may pose a safety risk, such as a home invasion or domestic abuse. [ 2 ]

6. AT&T service restored after nationwide outage. Feds are ... - AOL

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   The service interruption started around 3:30 a.m. AT&T and Cricket Wireless told the Miami Herald on Thursday afternoon that the service was restored to all affected customers. AT&T acquired the ...

7. Citizen (app) - Wikipedia

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   The company has employees who screen 911 communications, with the main criteria for inclusion being that the information "needs to pose a public safety concern." [ 23 ] The operations team includes journalists and former first responders , [ 38 ] who are "trained to make on-the-fly decisions about what goes into the app based on complex criteria."

8. Next Generation 911 - Wikipedia

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   The new infrastructure envisioned by the NG911 project will support national internetworking of 911 services, as well as transfer of emergency calls to other PSAPs—including any accompanying data. In addition, the PSAP will be able to issue emergency alerts to wireless devices in an area via voice or text message, and to highway alert systems.

9. National Emergency Number Association - Wikipedia

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   One of NENA's main functions is to grade the quality of the 9-1-1 (the Universal Emergency Number since 1968) services that exist throughout the United States. Through their Report Card to the Nation (RCN), the RCN Commission reviews and grades the performance of 9-1-1 centres based on their established standards of practice.