§ 10.10   Definitions.

   (a) Alert Message. An Alert Message is a message that is intended to
   provide the recipient information regarding an emergency, and that
   meets the requirements for transmission by a Participating Commercial
   Mobile Service Provider under this part.

   (b) Common Alerting Protocol. The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) refers
   to Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
   (OASIS) Standard CAP-V1.1, October 2005 (available at
   http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#capv1.1), or any subsequent
   version of CAP adopted by OASIS and implemented by the WEA.

   (c) Wireless Emergency Alerts. The Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)
   system refers to the voluntary emergency alerting system established by
   this part, whereby Commercial Mobile Service Providers may elect to
   transmit Alert Messages to the public.

   (d) Commercial Mobile Service Provider. A Commercial Mobile Service
   Provider (or CMS Provider) is an FCC licensee providing commercial
   mobile service as defined in section 332(d)(1) of the Communications
   Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d)(1)). Section 332(d)(1) defines the term
   commercial mobile service as any mobile service (as defined in 47
   U.S.C. 153) that is provided for profit and makes interconnected
   service available to the public or to such classes of eligible users as
   to be effectively available to a substantial portion of the public, as
   specified by regulation by the Commission.

   (e) County and County Equivalent. The terms County and County
   Equivalent as used in this part are defined by Federal Information
   Processing Standards (FIPS) 6-4, which provides the names and codes
   that represent the counties and other entities treated as equivalent
   legal and/or statistical subdivisions of the 50 States, the District of
   Columbia, and the possessions and freely associated areas of the United
   States. Counties are considered to be the “first-order subdivisions” of
   each State and statistically equivalent entity, regardless of their
   local designations (county, parish, borough, etc.). Thus, the following
   entities are considered to be equivalent to counties for legal and/or
   statistical purposes: The parishes of Louisiana; the boroughs and
   census areas of Alaska; the District of Columbia; the independent
   cities of Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia; that part of
   Yellowstone National Park in Montana; and various entities in the
   possessions and associated areas. The FIPS codes and FIPS code
   documentation are available online at
   http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/index.htm.

   (f) Participating Commercial Mobile Service Provider. A Participating
   Commercial Mobile Service Provider (or a Participating CMS Provider) is
   a Commercial Mobile Service Provider that has voluntarily elected to
   transmit Alert Messages under subpart B of this part.

   (g) “C” Interface. The interface between the Alert Gateway and CMS
   provider Gateway.

   (h) CMS provider Gateway. The mechanism(s) that supports the “C”
   interface and associated protocols between the Alert Gateway and the
   CMS provider Gateway, and which performs the various functions
   associated with the authentication, management and dissemination of WEA
   Alert Messages received from the Alert Gateway.

   (i) CMS provider infrastructure. The mechanism(s) that distribute
   received WEA Alert Messages throughout the CMS provider's network,
   including cell site/paging transceivers and perform functions
   associated with authentication of interactions with the Mobile Device.

   (j) Mobile Devices. The subscriber equipment generally offered by CMS
   providers that supports the distribution of WEA Alert Messages.

   (k) CMS Provider participation “in whole.” CMS Providers that have
   agreed to transmit WEA Alert Messages in a manner consistent with the
   technical standards, protocols, procedures, and other technical
   requirements implemented by the Commission in the entirety of their
   geographic service area, and when all mobile devices that the CMS
   Providers offer at the point of sale are WEA-capable.

   (l) CMS Provider participation “in part.” CMS Providers that have
   agreed to transmit WEA Alert Messages in a manner consistent with the
   technical standards, protocols, procedures, and other technical
   requirements implemented by the Commission in some, but not in all of
   their geographic service areas, or CMS Providers that offer mobile
   devices at the point of sale that are not WEA-capable.

   [ 73 FR 43117 , July 24, 2008, as amended at  73 FR 54525 , Sept. 22, 2008;
    78 FR 16807 , Mar. 19, 2013;  83 FR 8623 , Feb. 28, 2018]

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