Public emergency alert - being sent to your phone

[CoolHands]

Here it is

https://youtube.com/shorts/5jK0AuwYQ5Q?feature=sha...

Edited by CoolHands on Sunday 23 April 15:11

[CoolHands]

DickyC said:

14.59 for me. Nothing on my wife's yet. She asked to see what they looked like but I can't find a record of it.

Here. Unfortunately I could hear them going off at the crucible too (snooker)

https://youtube.com/shorts/5jK0AuwYQ5Q?feature=sha...

[CoolHands]

Reminds me of when during major snowstorm one year all the Highways agency websites fell over as too many people accessing them to check on road closures / journeys etc

Long arguments then ensued as to whether the cost of potential increased (website traffic) capacity should be born if 99% of the time it wasn’t required. But why have a system that doesn’t work then when it is required ie for the emergencies.

If it’s not reliable it’s worse than not having it in some cases.

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thegreenhell said:

Three have tweeted a response to their network's failure do deliver the alert to many customers

https://twitter.com/ThreeUK/status/165015789159525...

why don’t they just use Twitter to announce their bullst then we wouldn’t need this failure of a system

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vaud said:

Gazzab said:

Can anyone think of a real uk disaster in the last 20 years or so where this would have been useful and would have saved lives ie people could have been alerted and avoided death?

Several regional ones. And go back to 1987 the hurricane that the news said wasn't happening.

There are plenty of scenarios at a city or regional level where this system makes sense. Which is also why lots of other countries already have them.

Absolute cobblers

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vaud said:

CoolHands said:

Absolute cobblers

I love your constructive debating and discussion methods, they rank along side my 5 year olds.

It’s all been rebutted already.

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CharlesdeGaulle said:

Turn it off then. Jesus, it isn't difficult. fking melts.

Disappointing, Mr DeGaulle. As noted in this thread, although it appears you can turn it off, it’s not completely off and if they decide something is important enough then you’re getting it anyway, like it or not. Secondly, there is no realistic use for this here in the uk; none of the examples given are cut & dried. Thirdly, even if a particular message was useful, this wouldn’t save everyone as numerous people don’t have mobile phones, will be passed out pissed on their sofa, upstairs in bed, connectivity is patchy / non existent etc. So how will it save everyone in these (non-existent) urgent life & death scenarios? Do these poor sods get left to die a grisly radiation-soaked flash flooded death? How unfair.