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

Did you receive the Alert?

  • Yes

    Votes: 134 56.5%

  • No

    Votes: 103 43.5%
  • Total voters
    237
Sankari said:
This latest waste of taxpayers' money was brought to you by the government taxpayers have preferred in the last three elections.
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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.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
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.
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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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Nasher said:
How long before it gets sold off and used to push ads instead :p
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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.
 
Werewolf said:
IIRC that wasn't a true alert in the sense that they're talking about with this.
From memory it was basically all the UK mobile providers sending out an SMS to every active number, so it went out over the space of a day or two.
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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
 
dLockers said:
4 days a week out of town. No path to hybrid working at all.
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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!
 
I wonder how much KPMG or whatever was paid to basically copy/paste from another country? Bet it took a few hundred people to merely agree with the government's position as well...
 
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