§ 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.

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

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