Emergency alerts

[Sput]

'More testing required' methinks.

Please no.

I have no wish to go through all this again.

Was the delivery of the telegram poorly executed, Nick?

[Nick Harvey]

Was the delivery of the telegram poorly executed, Nick?

Yes. The guy just tucked it under the handset and went away.

[Alexia]

We don't have tornados, earthquakes or bushfires. We have localised flooding but there are pre-existing, local, targeted systems for that including old WW2 sirens.

What exactly is this for?

[WillPS]

We don't have tornados, earthquakes or bushfires. We have localised flooding but there are pre-existing, local, targeted systems for that including old WW2 sirens.

What exactly is this for?

We do have wildfires and will have more and more as time goes on, as well as decreasingly predictable flooding and other natural disasters.

We also have terror threats domestically, not to mention situations like Grenfell when the right advice in a timely manner could have made some difference.

'Why don't we already have this sorted?' is a more legitimate question.

[Pete]

So apparently the issue was that three only broadcast the signal once, instead of continuously for 20 minutes, meaning if your phone didn't have a flawless connection at that exact moment it didn't get the alert.

I did get quite a fright as I was driving at the time and it came through the carplay, which meant i initially thought it was an alarm from the car itself.

Obviously the pearl clutching and hysteria in the papers beforehand was far more tedious than the ten seconds of beeping itself.

[Nick Harvey]

Obviously the pearl clutching and hysteria in the papers beforehand was far more tedious than the ten seconds of beeping itself.

Exactly.

[Andrew Wood]

I guess not many people have been receiving the test emergency alerts from their network provider.

I was with O2/Tesco Mobile until about a month ago, and have had six tests of the system since October last year.

[cwathen]

Looks like the first actual one has just been sent out over Storm Darragh. Just like the tests, some people didn't get it

Edit - turns out there have been a few before.

[Pete]

a significant number of people who were whining that they got the alert and that the government were being ridiculous also appear to be the people who's gardens turned inside out overnight...