cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
What's this emergency alert thing ?not heard anything about it
Emergency alert today ?
- Thread starter gbb
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Sunday, 23rd at 3pm. A practice alert on all 4g and 5g compatible phones.
If we ever get attacked by Putin, or your village, town or city is in danger of flood, fire or pestilence the government will, via the phone mast system send out an alert in the form of a siren and a message on screen.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Except in that last big storm we had we lost not only power but the mobile mast went down too.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Even better than that. The police currently use the Airwave digital radio system, but it is getting on a bit now so is becoming difficult and expensive maintain.Except in that last big storm we had we lost not only power but the mobile mast went down too.
The new replacement system is horrific. It'll use 4G, piggybacking off the mobile phone system. However, the tightarriss government haven't paid for primacy for EMS users so in the event of an emergency when everyone reaches for the phone and the network clogs the emergency services won't be able to use their radios. In addition, as you rightly point out, its not unknown for the mobile phone network and/or internet provision to fail at a local level during emergencies, particularly floods.
And just to really cheer us up it was due to be introduced in 2018/19 and fully operational by 2020 as Motorola who own Airwave want to sell the sites and infrastructure but it is being so badly mismanaged it seems liable to be 2026/27 at the earliest (and possbly "much later") ...just as 4G starts to be phased out in favour of 5G. Heaven save us from civil servants!
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DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Given the software versions needed for it to work, I wonder what percentage of smartphone users will be unable to receive the alert? Certainly nothing in this house...
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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- Reading, obvs
The Government has said that versions of Android prior to 11 may well still be able to receive the alerts, so you and others may get a surprise.
D
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It will be interesting to know if the system bypasses airplane mode
It doesn’t
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
The tension mounts ...
newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
Are you suggesting that the LTE receiver is left running and only the transmitter is disabled in aeroplane mode? Unlikely but possible I suppose... I'm tempted to experiment.
presta
Guru
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
All hell just broke in my house. With 4 phones activating at once.
But my daughters phone never went off.
But my daughters phone never went off.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Interesting...
Iphone 6 - nowt, as expected.
Three old Galaxies, an S5 Neo, an S7, and an S7 Edge, all went off. All running Android 10, however.
Iphone 6 - nowt, as expected.
Three old Galaxies, an S5 Neo, an S7, and an S7 Edge, all went off. All running Android 10, however.
