Poll: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones

[Deleted member 77746]

I've turned the alert settings off. If there was really a real emergency in the future the Government wouldn't tell us plebs anyway.

Can you stick me in your will please?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I've no idea what a hate divide is.

He's on about Covid and how it separated people including him and his own family.

 

[Lopéz]

He's on about Covid and how it separated people including him and his own family.

Ha, well no I'm not going to start hating my mum for switching off her emergency alert broadcasts.

 

[The_Arbiter]

Sunday 3pm apparently for select devices with 5g or 4g on.

Expect your mobile to go off at 3pm on Sunday as new emergency alerts are tested – here's which phones will ring and what it'll sound like

Public emergency alerts, which will use the 4G and 5G mobile networks, enable urgent messages to be broadcast to a defined area when there is an imminent risk to life, such as wildfires or severe flooding.

www.moneysavingexpert.com

 

[Tony Edwards]

What a joke this lot are.

Don't deactivate emergency phone alert, No 10 urges public amid Tory backlash

Millions of mobile phones across Britain will emit a loud 10-second blast at 3pm on Sunday in a test of the new electronic warning system

www.telegraph.co.uk

The public should not deactivate the new emergency alert system on their phones, Downing Street has urged amid a backlash from Conservative MPs.

Millions of mobile phones across Britain will emit a loud 10-second blast at 3pm on Sunday in a test of the new electronic warning, which is intended to notify the public of natural disasters or terrorist attacks.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648259131411775488

St George’s Day at risk of being 'ruined' by emergency action

Mobile phone users across the UK are bracing themselves for an emergency alert message

www.gbnews.com

An emergency alert planned for St George's Day risks overshadowing the event's festivities, according to a political commentator.

Mobile phone users across the UK are bracing themselves for an emergency alert message, which will be sent to devices across the country on Sunday, 23 April.

 

[Rroff]

How are people so mentally fragile they can't deal with a 10 second disruption? the only argument I've seen so far which makes sense is those in a situation where a hidden phone can be a lifeline such as domestic abuse.

 

[StriderX]

How are people so mentally fragile they can't deal with a 10 second disruption? the only argument I've seen so far which makes sense is those in a situation where a hidden phone can be a lifeline such as domestic abuse.

Probably because it'll either be misused or never used.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I WILL DEAL WITH THIS EXACTLY HOW I DEAL WITH UNWANTED CALLS, I WILL PRESS THE BUTTON TO STOP IT.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

 

[Rroff]

Probably because it'll either be misused or never used.

The weird thing is if it is actually abused only a fraction of those complaining now will bother... and hopefully it is never used.

 

[Lopéz]

Mobile phone users across the UK are bracing themselves for an emergency alert message, which will be sent to devices across the country on Sunday, 23 April.

BRACE YOURSELF, YOU'RE GOING TO GET A TEXT MESSAGE!

 

[Chris Wilson]

The worst thing to hear at 3.00PM is "Time gentlemen PLEASE".

 

[Rroff]

"In error":

Florida's 4 a.m. Emergency Alert test to cell phones Thursday was sent in error

If you live in Florida, you were more than likely awakened early Thursday morning by an emergency alert notification on your cell phone – only to find out that there was no emergency; instead, it was a test alert that was mistakenly sent out.

www.fox35orlando.com

But I'm sure they aren't preparing us for something, no not at all.

 

[Minusorange]

"In error":

Florida's 4 a.m. Emergency Alert test to cell phones Thursday was sent in error

If you live in Florida, you were more than likely awakened early Thursday morning by an emergency alert notification on your cell phone – only to find out that there was no emergency; instead, it was a test alert that was mistakenly sent out.

www.fox35orlando.com

But I'm sure they aren't preparing us for something, no not at all.

The timing with those Russian spy boats mapping our undersea cables is a little sus

 

[adidan]

*** ALERT ***
* Health warning *
Milk
Milk
Lemonade
Round the back chocolate's made
*** END OF ALERT ***

 

[Lopéz]

Recieved something simmilar to this when I was in Romania. The warning was in Romanian, so naturally I was a bit concerned as I couldn't read it! After getting one of my colleagues to translate, all it pretty much said was "Heatwave forecast, stay hydrated and avoid the sun between 12-3-PM

I was in Arad in Romania last year when I received my first one, warning of lightning and torrential rain - which arrived within, literally, seconds! It's quite surreal hearing everyone's phone go off at the same time.

I've just crossed into Romania now, I wonder if I'll get any more this time.

 

[Feek]

You literally might

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Recieved something simmilar to this when I was in Romania. The warning was in Romanian, so naturally I was a bit concerned as I couldn't read it! After getting one of my colleagues to translate, all it pretty much said was "Heatwave forecast, stay hydrated and avoid the sun between 12-3-PM

Were you OK with it hun?
Did you feel violated?
A lot of people in here would be

 

[SixTwoSix]

They must be going on about this in schools a bit as my son has reminded me every day this week that there's an alert on Sunday. He's 5 and obsessed with tsunami, volcano, earthquake stuff so this has him really excited

 

[Lopéz]

You literally might

I was literally about to say that. There's a Babushka sat opposite me on this train and she's literally glaring at my bottle of red. Perhaps she's not a fan of Zweigelt. (Can't blame her, it's not that great tbh)

 

[Ice Tea]

At 36 seconds.