Emergency Alert. Only A Test !.

[William51]

On Sunday at 3:00 PM the government is testing a new system by sending an emergency alert to everyones smart phones. They only work on 4G and 5G. No panic needed.

[drmorgans]

Lets hope they have a bit of fun, like this one in Hawaii:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert

What could possibly go wrong.

[mushroom25]

interesting to see how many drivers end up looking at their phones on sunday at 3pm? maybe safer to be parked up at that time?

[Prudie]

I'm amazed at how many people still seem to be unaware of this happening. It's been on the news and AB for several weeks.

[brainiac]

How long till spammers start using this

[woofgang]

If you know of anyone who keeps a hidden phone (eg abuse victims) then do make sure that they are aware of this and need to turn their phones off as the alarm will still come through even if the phone is on silent.

[woofgang]

In the Mail today are instructions for how to disable the alert.