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aardvaak
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It has been said we should turn our phones off just before 3pm today, but should we also turn off mobile home modem/routers which also have SIMs?
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I hadn't thought of those- I bet The Government haven't either.Why not leave it on and let us know what happens?I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
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You can turn off whatever you like, don't think that there is yet any legislation to prohibit unplugging stuff.1
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Semi-serious point, I'm guessing that the alert would activate on a 4/5G device regardless of the presence or not of a SIM?0
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flaneurs_lobster said:Semi-serious point, I'm guessing that the alert would activate on a 4/5G device regardless of the presence or not of a SIM?
How would it pick it up without a SIM?
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The SIM is just a unique electronic identifier, all the gubbins (technical term) for receiving the alert are incorporated in the phone itself.1
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I hadn't thought about other devices capable of receiving 4G signal - but if they aren't set up to act on the alarm instruction i.e. they lack the firmware or hardware then presumably they're just getting a packet of data they ignore.Fashion on the Ration
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If you have 2 phones, take the SIM out of one and let us know what happens.Even more exciting!They should do a test every Sunday for a month so we can experiment.It ought to work sans SIM, you can make emergency calls without one.I can't see anything happening with a router, it can't display messages, but it will be interesting to see if it interrupts t'interweb somehow.I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
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The stuff I want to know is:* Will it knock everyone's Aunt Marge of a live mobile call?
* Will long-retired Nokias at the back of drawers come back to life?
* How bonkers are next door's dogs going to go?Fashion on the Ration
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