UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
23-04-2023, 15:11
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
I didn't receive it 
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23-04-2023, 15:15
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
Watching the live snooker, and people are receiving it long after 3pm.
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23-04-2023, 15:17
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
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It's not old S20FE 5G and everything is enabled, the test just didn't work.
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Yeah l an just reading a live news feed and it seems quite a few phone users got nothing.
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23-04-2023, 15:17
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
Interestingly when I got the phone out and it reconnected got the alert. Not as loud as the text receipt tone.
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23-04-2023, 15:17
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
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Watching the live snooker, and people are receiving it long after 3pm.
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If people switched their phone off, or on airplane mode, then back on they will receive it once the phone attaches to the network unless the message itself has been expired centrally.
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23-04-2023, 15:19
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
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Mrs K didn't get it, I did. Only works for later android versions apparently. Those with old phones get to die in ignorance I guess, probably for the best.
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23-04-2023, 15:20
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
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It's not old S20FE 5G and everything is enabled, the test just didn't work.
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Potentially outside a 4G/5G coverage area? If (as an example) you are on Wi-Fi and your phone happily connected to 2/3G then I suspect it wouldn't get the message.
There's no technical reason why older 2G and 3G handsets wouldn't get the message as cell broadcast technology is long established. So my assumption is that the Government are choosing not to broadcast it from 2G or 3G towers.
Slightly odd as you'd imagine it'd be most useful in rural areas for extreme weather/flooding type events that may not have 4G.
Edit: it's being reported that the Three network (and MVNOs that rely upon it) may not have broadcasted it.
Last edited by jfman; 23-04-2023 at 15:25.
Reason: extra info
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23-04-2023, 15:27
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
So now i know what to expect when the Aliens attack. I can move on with my life 
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23-04-2023, 15:31
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
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Potentially outside a 4G/5G coverage area? If (as an example) you are on Wi-Fi and your phone happily connected to 2/3G then I suspect it wouldn't get the message.
There's no technical reason why older 2G and 3G handsets wouldn't get the message as cell broadcast technology is long established. So my assumption is that the Government are choosing not to broadcast it from 2G or 3G towers.
Slightly odd as you'd imagine it'd be most useful in rural areas for extreme weather/flooding type events that may not have 4G.
Edit: it's being reported that the Three network (and MVNOs that rely upon it) may not have broadcasted it.
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I'm on Smarty which uses the Three network, if I turn WiFi off I get 4G.
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23-04-2023, 15:54
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
I am on the O2 Classic and I did not get the message
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23-04-2023, 16:00
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
Well I was working out in the garden at the time and didn't have my phone on me. only noticed it when I came back in about 15 minutes later as my phone still had the message on the screen.
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23-04-2023, 16:16
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
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So my assumption is that the Government are choosing not to broadcast it from 2G or 3G towers.
Slightly odd as you'd imagine it'd be most useful in rural areas for extreme weather/flooding type events that may not have 4G.
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2G and 3G networks will all have been retired by their operators by 2033 at the latest. Presumably el gov didn’t think it useful enough to insist the technology was installed on them. In any case, 3G was never rolled out as extensively as it might have been (arguably, Nu Labour prioritised high spectrum bids over onerous licence requirements around geographical coverage). Rural areas are the very place you never get a 3G signal.
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23-04-2023, 16:21
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
I knew nothing about it, and my phone was off, as it usually is.
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23-04-2023, 16:41
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
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2G and 3G networks will all have been retired by their operators by 2033 at the latest. Presumably el gov didn’t think it useful enough to insist the technology was installed on them. In any case, 3G was never rolled out as extensively as it might have been (arguably, Nu Labour prioritised high spectrum bids over onerous licence requirements around geographical coverage). Rural areas are the very place you never get a 3G signal.
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I knew CCHQ would have lines on it, thanks!
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23-04-2023, 16:56
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Re: UK Emergency Alert Mobile Phone Test - 3pm 23/04
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I knew CCHQ would have lines on it, thanks!
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The 2G/3G ‘latest’ switch off date is on the Ofcom website … the rest of it is informed speculation (informed by the fact they obviously didn’t want to spend anything on this at all, and have been dragged kicking and screaming into Doing Something after lots of people suggested this would have been a Nice To Have during covid).
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