My mother was watching the cable news outlets via Charter Communications and saw nothing at or around 11 AM regarding the alerts other than the cable news outlets stating that the test was about to happen that did not then happen in mom's viewing area (Central Coast of California). That was repeated by the FEMA Chief in Washington DC who was reportedly watching CNN waiting to see it play and it did not.
Kimmer
Satellite companies (Dish/DirecTV) are certainly licensed or their 'birds' couldn't send a signal down. That puts them under the FCC control, including EAS mandates. Ditto satellite radio (Sirius/XM).
Cable companies transmit into wire/optical cable which is never supposed to radiate on the air (but do). I made a presumption that they were also licensed but I could be mistaken. They are a power unto themselves (they think at least) making demands of broadcast stations for clean streams, overriding content and other such nonsense. They're often a terror and if the public knew what went on behind the scenes...
If they aren't licensed, they are still under Federal domain (interstate traffic etc.). Unplugging a mandated program is inexcusable, they should be publically flogged. Consumers don't have many choices, but they need to be informed that the cable company is being so irresponsible. They're not unlike a 2 year child with me me me me me mine mine mine mine no no no no with real tears when they're spanked.
It's not the spectrum of the cable company, it is OUR spectrum and managed by the FCC. Get over it cable, you CAN be replaced.
Boo hoo, take the good with the bad and grow up cable. You do wrong, you'll get spanked again. Do it often enough and maybe you'll learn something.
On the other hand, they provide the best internet service (faster, quieter and more reliable than satellite and phone based) but at a cost that is profit based instead of service based.
But my point was that the EAS is not utilizing 'common' modes of communication systems of today. It was designed when everybody listened to radio and got TV from an antenna some 50 years ago.
For example, send the EAS bulletin to EVERY cell tower so that it can relay alerts to EVERY cell phone on that tower (which would also allow local emergency broadcasts in a specific geographic area). That would connect with greater than 75% of the population in short order (who doesn't have a cell nearby?).
Because these services (cell, internet based) cross state lines, they fall under Federal domain. It would be in the services best interest (hello, phone companies?) to create the EAS relay system before they're told to do it; because now they can design an efficient system for their networks instead of being told what/how to do it. The tools are already in place, USE them.
Rick
--
Check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/californiadisasters/
Read my blog at http://eclecticarcania.blogspot.com/
My Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/derkimster
Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kim-noyes/9/3a1/2b8
Follow me on Twitter @DisasterKim
__._,_.___
No comments:
Post a Comment