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Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS)

Alerting the public to life-threatening events is serious business. There's zero tolerance for error. When it comes to CMAS, TCS is exceptionally qualified for the job. As both the pioneer in E9-1-1 and the North American leader in text messaging, we have the proven performance and unparalleled experience that makes us the company you trust when it matters most. 

CMAS Qualifications and Domain Expertise

Our experience in mobile communications means we have the engineering, management, and integration capabilities that no other single company possesses today:

• TCS routes more than 160,000 wireless E9-1-1 public safety calls daily.
• TCS handles approximately one‐third of all U.S. text messages, delivering a record 850 billion text messages in 2010, up from 700 billion in 2009. 
• We are the leading trusted provider of secure communications to the US military and the US Department of Homeland Security.
• We are a technology leader who holds over 100 patented technologies for alerting, messaging, and location.
• Our TL9000-certified Network Operations Center (NOC) provides a secure facility for large-scale high-availability alert solutions.

TCS Alerts: A System of Systems Approach

• Standards-based solution. 
• Fully integrated with the Disaster-Management (DM) Open architecture.
• Public Safety E9-1-1 grade platform 
• Modular architecture for simpler CMAS maintenance, administration, and provisioning.
• A wireless carrier offering that complies with the FCC’s CMAS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. 

For more information regarding CMAS:

• CMAS Collateral

Learn more about TCS Alerts:

• TCS Alerts Cell Broadcast Service