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Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK smartphones on 23rd April

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  • EssexExile
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    J_B said:
    Nothing here on aNdroid or aPpLe - on the Three network
    Interesting, my wife's fairly new android on 3 didn't work but my old one on O2 did.
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  • Le_Kirk
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    EssexExile said:
    J_B said:
    Nothing here on aNdroid or aPpLe - on the Three network
    Interesting, my wife's fairly new android on 3 didn't work but my old one on O2 did.
    Mrs Le_Kirk popped her head out of the kitchen to say  that BBC news reported only three people didn't receive it.  I thought, how do they know, until she clarified it was Network 3 that the news was referring to!
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    RumRat said:
    Le_Kirk said:
    One minute early but why was it an American voice?
    Because that's what your phone is set to?...Mine was a rather nice lady from the Home Counties (Possibly)...
    My phone is not "set to" anywhere.
  • Brie
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    My 2 phones went off a minute early but OH's not at all.  And now he's wandering around the back garden looking like a zombie and repeatedly saying "brains!" in a peculiar voice.
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    Le_Kirk said:
     :D 
    EssexExile said:
    J_B said:
    Nothing here on aNdroid or aPpLe - on the Three network
    Interesting, my wife's fairly new android on 3 didn't work but my old one on O2 did.
    Mrs Le_Kirk popped her head out of the kitchen to say  that BBC news reported only three people didn't receive it.  I thought, how do they know, until she clarified it was Network 3 that the news was referring to!
     :D  :D  :D.........
  • RumRat
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    Le_Kirk said:
    RumRat said:
    Le_Kirk said:
    One minute early but why was it an American voice?
    Because that's what your phone is set to?...Mine was a rather nice lady from the Home Counties (Possibly)...
    My phone is not "set to" anywhere.
    Probably why you got an American.....It's always set to somewhere, usually the US by default..
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  • baser999
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    No doubt all emergency services would have been inundated by callers reporting “I’ve just received a strange message, do I need do anything?”
  • twopenny
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    Not taking anything for granted I was about to drive some tricky roads at 3pm so pulled in and waited. Nothing. 
    I expected to hear an alarm en masse from pedestrians, cars, houses. Nothing.
    Large numbers of people on a sunny Sunday in dodgy reception areas. Nothing.

    Are we paying for this !!!!! when we still haven't prepared for the next pandemic/nhs underfunding/roads full of potholes?

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  • BlobCore
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    Had mine at 14:59. Then the Welsh language version some 5 minutes later. Wonder if there’s a delay in translation but I’ll hold off on any comments about regional priorities…
  • Neil49
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    Le_Kirk said:
    One minute early but why was it an American voice?
    I didn't get a voice. My phone just buzzed and a message appeared which I just touched to clear. 

    My wifes phone went off 20 minutes later. We are both on the same network and were together all of the time. 
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