[SatNews] Ensuring compliance with the FCC's WARN Act...

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has now made available its hosted Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) service. This service's location-based emergency alert messaging capability helps carriers comply with the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) Warning, Alert and Response Network Act (WARN Act) as well as enables commercial message broadcasts of geographically relevant information such as enterprise notifications, traffic, news, coupons, etc . The FCC issued the 2012 mandate to create a life-saving service that will allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to deliver timely and accurate emergency alerts and warnings to the cell phones of citizens in targeted geographical areas.

TCS' hosted CMAS service offers U.S. wireless carriers the ability to meet the 2012 CMAS mandate. The service accomplishes this goal by giving carriers FEMA-compliant location-based messaging capabilities that minimize the demand on carriers' infrastructure and financial resources. The service includes system design, integration, testing and deployment, and it uses TCS' proven public safety platform and TL 9000 certified facilities. The heart of the service is the TCS Alerts solution, a standards-compliant offering based on the company's patented E9-1-1 and location-based messaging platform. TCS, a trusted partner to Tier 1 U.S. wireless communications carriers and government customers, supplies comprehensive messaging and location solutions to meet its customers' mission-critical needs. TCS powered the delivery of nearly one trillion text messages and half of all wireless 9-1-1 calls in 2010 alone.