an interesting take.
Poll: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
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Soldato
Plenty of freemen of the land raising heads over this. How dare they abuse my bandwidth in this way.
Commissario
I don't think it even counts towards your usage of the phone, as it's got to work even if you have no credit/data left.
Soldato
It won’t cost much as all cellular networks have a “Send to all” feature and HMG just need to have a feed into they networks operation centres and the protocol in place.
The interesting part will be network‘s data capacities impacting the Emergency Message delivery for all attached users.
Man of Honour
How come?
Man of Honour
Personally I don't think this is strange many countries have had this for ages.
That said I turn my phone off at night anyway and is downstairs.
That said I turn my phone off at night anyway and is downstairs.
Commissario
I suspect it'll be a lot less than say the new years sms flood, as I can imagine given it's been in use in other countries for over a decade that there is probably some way to basically forward it once to each mast's transmitters then that mast sends it out to every device it's connected to in short order, so potentially very little wasted overheard between the towers/back to the core network (and fewer messages per tower than many big events).
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How long before it gets sold off and used to push ads instead
Never they won't allow it.
Underboss
Sounds like the metaverse
4 days a week out of town. No path to hybrid working at all.
Soldato
How long before it gets sold off and used to push ads instead
There’s been a feature called Cell Broadcast since the 2G/GSM days were a Class 0 SMS could be sent to all mobiles on their first registration on a cell. The idea was that this mechanism could be used to share local information such as parking/traffic/event details. Use as an advertising medium was discussed at the time, but network operators said at the time that the device’s UI would need to be able to disable the feature or users would switch to the network which decided not to send unsolicited adverts to their customers.
Associate
So long as you can still turn them off when they inevitably turn into 'amber heatwave alert', 'world recycling day reminder' etc etc, no issues.
Man of Honour
Apparently we are one of the only countries that doesn't already do this, behind everybody else again.
Soldato
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Exactly, the Covid "alerts" weren't really alerts, just text messages that you could easily ignore, this alert seems to lock your phone until you acknowledge it, which is weird timing given everything going on in the world
Man of Honour
Ah. I never had that but made it work for both of mine (1.5hr commute each way) but I agree if you can WFH depending on the age of your kid it will help. I personally loathe WFH full time but everyone is different! Glad you've got some happiness out of it!
Commissario
Jeezus, why are so many people against this?
If it saves one life, it's a good thing.
If it saves one life, it's a good thing.
