C Spire offers Wireless Emergency Alerts on its mobile network

Carrier broadcasts free, text-like notifications on customer devices equipped to receive special alerts related to severe weather threats, missing persons and national emergencies

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May 29, 2015, 05:13 ET

RIDGELAND, Miss., May 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With the start of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season just around the corner, C Spire is reminding consumers that they can receive free, location-based notifications on capable mobile phones under a national public safety warning system designed to alert consumers during emergencies.

Wireless Emergency Alerts is a national public safety warning system designed to notify consumers about severe weather, missing persons or national emergencies on their mobile phones. C Spire participates in the program by sending the alerts to its customers in the Southeast.

Wireless carriers voluntarily broadcast the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) over their networks in cooperation with state and federal authorities under the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) program, but only after extensive testing and certification by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

C Spire received final FEMA approval in 2014 to begin broadcasting the text-like, 90 character messages designed to warn consumers about severe weather threats, missing persons or Presidential alerts during national emergencies. Customers can opt out of weather and missing person alerts by adjusting their device notification settings, but Presidential alerts are mandatory.

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C Spire is a diversified telecommunications and technology services company that provides world-class, customer-inspired wireless communications, 1 Gigabit consumer Internet access as well as a full suite of dedicated Internet, wireless, IP Voice, data and cloud services for businesses. This news release and other announcements are available at www.cspire.com/news. For more information about C Spire, visit www.cspire.com or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cspire or Twitter at www.twitter.com/cspire.

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