farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
It's there in the 'previous alerts' or 'alert history' bit of the relevant menu (can't remember exactly what the menu option is called).
Emergency! Emergency! Will you get the alert?
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No. To show that texts and emergency alerts are delivered at different speeds.
SMS is sent in the idle time so it is delayed when the tower is transmitting voice data, so are delivered slower than alerts using data.
There is also not enough capacity to send that many messages simultaneously from the mobile network providers, which delays it even more.
Look it up if you are interested.
kittyP
Pluviophile
I just found my alert history (I didn't know it was there) and it was obviously automatically switched off
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
i don't know about the technicalities of it all, but have recollections of some years when people sent 'happy new year' text messages to everyone at midnight, i think i got some after i'd woken up on new years day...
elbows
Well-Known Member
Probe...
Emergency alert: Cabinet Office to review why tests failed on some phones
While millions of people across the UK heard an alarm on their phones at 15:00 BST on Sunday, many others did not.
www.bbc.co.uk
WouldBe
Dislicksick
And yet when the system is busy SMS are more likely to get through.
Again SMS use far less data than voice or internet that people may be using so quite feasible.
Not sure why people are suggesting that SMS is the better option else many countries would be using that now rather than this technology. As well as the speed of being able to send out mass alerts, I imagine the main benefit is that it can send alerts to specific geographic locations which I imagine SMS doesn’t do. Yes, for this test the UK did a nationwide test but imagine in future they might be more localised.
If the government wanted to notify more people, they would have sent out the alert by post. Not everyone has a mobile phone and wouldn’t all receive an SMS. Similarly not everyone has a device capable of receiving these alerts but presumably they believe that the current reach is sufficient to get urgent alerts out much more efficiently.
en.wikipedia.org
If the government wanted to notify more people, they would have sent out the alert by post. Not everyone has a mobile phone and wouldn’t all receive an SMS. Similarly not everyone has a device capable of receiving these alerts but presumably they believe that the current reach is sufficient to get urgent alerts out much more efficiently.
Cell Broadcast - Wikipedia
And yet when the system is busy SMS are more likely to get through.
Again SMS use far less data than voice or internet that people may be using so quite feasible.
They don't use any mobile data but use the voice system.
I believe in ghosts, if you want to believe that SMS is a better system go right ahead.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
This is an interesting series of articles about the evolution of the system
medium.com
A history of Emergency Alerts in the UK. Part 1: The early years (2012–2018)
The UK’s journey with Emergency Alerts has certainly not been straightforward. Despite being a slog at times, I’ve been fortunate enough to…
medium.com
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
What?
And yet when the system is busy SMS are more likely to get through.
Again SMS use far less data than voice or internet that people may be using so quite feasible.
I don’t know but I presume they tag SMS traffic to have a lower priority thann voice. It doesn’t matter if it’s a couple of seconds late whereas obviously voice has to be delivered on time.
Looks like there is location based SMS but no future developments were planned and it is slow so likely why they (and many other countries) don’t use it.This is an interesting series of articles about the evolution of the system
A history of Emergency Alerts in the UK. Part 1: The early years (2012–2018)
The UK’s journey with Emergency Alerts has certainly not been straightforward. Despite being a slog at times, I’ve been fortunate enough to…
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Per part 3 of that blog “Once the service is live there may also be pressure to extend the service to include LBSMS (Location based SMS). All I will say on this point is there are strong commercial interests in LBSMS. Implementation and operational costs are significant.”
So possibly it might be extended to SMS if the network providers get their way to make more money.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
I didn't say it was better and the GSM standards people say SMS can be used for emergency alerts. I was questioning your assertion that SMS was a lot slower comparing it to snail mail v e-mail.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
They already use it. The gov even have an app that customers can pay to use to contact potential customers.
Per that blog that farmerbarleymow posted, SMS took 48 hours for a national alert versus 10 seconds for cell broadcast.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
SMS is a lot slower as they need to type in the messages one by one. It must take an army of staff with phones to message all the mobiles in the country.They already use it. The gov even have an app that customers can pay to use to contact potential customers.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Phone goes nuts with the earthquake warnings but doesn't always get them right. It's often more terrifying than the tremors.
Pretty sure never signed up for alerts, it must be a built in thing.
Pretty sure never signed up for alerts, it must be a built in thing.
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
andysays
Love and solidarity
WouldBe
Dislicksick
No they don't.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
This indeed come to pass. Loads of phone calls asking why they didn't get the alert. He doesn't know.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Tell him he needs to turn something off and on again
The39thStep
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Anyone else experience problems paying for their lunch in Wetherspoons yesterday?
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