Poll: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
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I'll try and make sure I'm in Resus. at 1500 then. That should be fun. 
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Ooo excellent, another one! Something to really look forward to on Sunday.
I will make sure my phone is out at that time because I should be singing a few Ozzy songs with another band at an open air event and I'll play it over the mic
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I'll try and make sure I'm in Resus. at 1500 then. That should be fun.
All the Clinicians and staff normally have their phones on them, if they aren't supposed to the Matron will soon find out
So if I remember correctly last time on tinfoil.con it was a possible threat of war with Russia, that brought on this alarm.
Is this one now being touted as the sound of the upcoming civil war, or that the current in power country wreckers have your pension and savings and are skipping the country
Is this one now being touted as the sound of the upcoming civil war, or that the current in power country wreckers have your pension and savings and are skipping the country
new report last week where analysis of mobile phone reception in the 5/6 counties they tested so far,
(monitored automatically by kit attached to bin-lorry, versus user reports) was only 15% and not the 2/3% that ofcom had promised(nearly as bad as ofwat) ,
which helped explain why I live in the phone bermuda triangle and won't see Putins bomb coming, to level lakenheath&mildenhall.
[e: maybe living near strategic targets is a good thing]
and, by the way - google said their eearthquake early warning system had failed.
(monitored automatically by kit attached to bin-lorry, versus user reports) was only 15% and not the 2/3% that ofcom had promised(nearly as bad as ofwat) ,
which helped explain why I live in the phone bermuda triangle and won't see Putins bomb coming, to level lakenheath&mildenhall.
[e: maybe living near strategic targets is a good thing]
and, by the way - google said their eearthquake early warning system had failed.
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This reminds me earlier this year I was on holiday in Lithuania and they tested the alarm system! I was on the loo and heard it, just accepted I'd be vaporised before the flush 
You could both get me banned again if you like.....
Used to be like it in the UK years ago - I'm just about old enough to remember them decommissioning the old WW2/Cold War network.
EDIT: Don't know how widespread it was in the UK but they'd periodically test it in the town I grew up in in the 80s maybe up until 90 or so I can't remember now.
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We get a weekly test in Newton Aycliffe, 1045 every Thursday. ItsÁ due to the INEOS chemical plant in the industrial estate. Its more to warn workers and the housing estates in the immediate vicinity. I'm on the other side of town, in the event of an actual emergency its just a keep the windows shut kinda situation where I am.
Hopefully my phone gets this next one, didnt work for me last time!
Hopefully my phone gets this next one, didnt work for me last time!
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I'm at a wedding on Sunday but fortunately/unfortunately depending how you view it the actual ceremony will be concluded and it'll be in the downtime period before the meal.
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Just imagining how it would be if the actual ceremony was at the same time.
"I now pronounce you..."
-Loud blaring sound from hundreds of phones-
Surely it's.....if anyone knows a reason why these two people should not be wed.....all the phones go off!
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Oh yes, I forgot about that! The perfect moment for it to happen.
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and will be the thing that is talked about for years.
It's quite funny that all the memorable bits of weddings you remember are the things that were bad.
If it's like the US they'll have taken reception at any point in the post code area as covering the entire area.
Fitting the monitoring devices to things like bin lorries is a great way to check because they tend to go to most addresses, and often take some very rural roads back to the tip so they cover a huge area every week or two.
IIRC the US companies absolutely gamed the system to get the funding for rolling it out to rural areas by realising that they only had to get reception somewhere (anywhere) in a certain area to get paid for "expanding coverage in rural areas" and placed the mobile phone masts very carefully to ensure that the highways had coverage, then in quieter areas that the masts would cover as many of the "reception areas" as possible, even if they only actually served a few meters into the zone, along the route it would be checked.
I think there was a project that basically had mobile phones fitted to things like light aircraft logging the position/signal and they found that many areas that were classed as "covered" and as thus had triggered a milestone payout actually only had a tiny percentage of the area with a signal (something like the FCC had blocks of several square miles so getting a signal on a road on on edge of it was enough).