18 February 2014

Wireless Emergency Alerts

Mobile Penetration Strategy

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This report characterizes the factors that affect wireless emergency alert (WEA) coverage, identifies barriers to public access to WEA alerts, and suggests options for increasing mobile penetration (adoption) of WEA nationwide.

Please note: This report is not available on the RAND website but can be downloaded from the firstresponder.govwebsite.

Document Details 

Copyright: U.S. Department of Homeland Security 
Availability: Web-Only 
Pages: 182 
Document Number: RR-174-OSD 
Year: 2014 

Contents 


Chapter One 


Introduction 


Chapter Two 


WEA Mobile Penetration Strategy 


Chapter Three 


Methodology 


Chapter Four 


Estimated Alert Originator Coverage and Barriers to Expanding Coverage 


Chapter Five 


Estimated CMSP Coverage 


Chapter Six 


WEA Compatibility of Mobile Devices 


Chapter Seven 


Estimated Population Adoption 


Chapter Eight 


User Acceptance and Public Awareness 


Chapter Nine 


Conclusions 


Appendix A 


List of Acronyms 


Appendix B 


WEA History and Motivation 


Appendix C 


Mobile Device Turnover Rate Model 


Appendix D 


Additional Detail on American Roamer Data and FCC Election Letter Matching 


Appendix E 


Additional Detail on Coverage Analysis

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