Federal Communications Commission	DA 25-1078



DA 25-1078
Released:  December 18, 2025

PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU ANNOUNCES COMPLIANCE DEADLINE FOR MULTILINGUAL WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT TEMPLATES 
PS Docket Nos. 15-91 and 15-94

With this Public Notice, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) announces June 12, 2028, as the deadline for commercial mobile service providers participating in Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) to implement multilingual templates that alert originators can choose to send during life-threatening emergencies. Wireless Emergency Alerts, Amendments to Part 11 of the Commission’s Rules Regarding the Emergency Alert System, PS Docket Nos. 15-94 and 15-91, Third Report and Order, 38 FCC Rcd 10116, 10124, para. 14, 10128, para. 21 (2023) (WEA Third Report and Order); 47 CFR §§ 10.480, 10.500(e).  
  When an alerting authority chooses to send a multilingual Alert Message, WEA-capable mobile devices must be able to extract and display the relevant template in the subscriber’s default language, if available. Id. at 10124, para. 14.
  The WEA-capable mobile devices of commercial mobile service providers participating in WEA must support templates in the 13 most commonly spoken languages in the United States, in addition to English templates. Id. at 10126-27, para. 19.
  These languages include: Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Arabic, French, Korean, Russian, Haitian Creole, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Italian. Id.
  WEA-capable mobile devices must also support templates in American Sign Language. Id. at 10127, para. 20.

In the 2023 WEA Third Report and Order, the Commission directed the Bureau to develop specific implementation parameters for template-based multilingual alerting, Id. at 10128, para. 21.
 and required commercial mobile service providers participating in WEA to comply with the multilingual template requirements within 30 months of the Bureau publishing its order in the Federal Register. Id. at 10130, 10153-54, paras. 25, 74.
  The Bureau adopted the Multilingual WEA Implementation Report and Order in January 2025, establishing fillable templates for the eighteen most commonly issued and most time-sensitive types of alerts and specifying other implementation requirements. Wireless Emergency Alerts; Amendments to Part 11 of the Commission’s Rules Regarding the Emergency Alert System, PS Docket Nos. 15-91 and 15-94; Report and Order, 40 FCC Rcd 43 (PSHSB 2025) (Multilingual WEA Implementation Report and Order).
  The Report and Order was published in the Federal Register on December 10, 2025. Federal Communications Commission, Wireless Emergency Alerts and the Emergency Alert System; Correction, 90 Fed. Reg. 59071 (Dec. 18, 2025); see also Federal Communications Commission, Wireless Emergency Alerts and the Emergency Alert System, 90 Fed. Reg. 57288 (Dec. 10, 2025).
  Accordingly, the deadline for compliance with these requirements is June 12, 2028.   
For further information, please contact Joshua Gehret, Attorney Advisor, Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at (202) 418-7816 or Joshua.Gehret@fcc.gov. 
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