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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on March 19, 2023, 09:02:57 AM

Title: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 19, 2023, 09:02:57 AM

For info


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64999417

Title: Re: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
Post by: Udayana on March 19, 2023, 12:18:54 PM

hmm... sounds terrible.

Title: Re: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
Post by: jeremyp on March 20, 2023, 08:01:42 AM

Fantastic. I’ll be at the Half Moon in Putney watching a band when it happens. Should be interesting.

Title: Re: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 20, 2023, 10:24:05 AM

We know the drill
Introduced before the election to show the tories care.
Small group of tories, the usual suspects calling for voter ID, deride this scheme as an attack on british freedoms.
Tories elected
Scheme withdrawn shortly afterward.

Title: Re: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
Post by: Steve H on March 20, 2023, 10:29:35 PM

Quote from: Walt Zingmatilder on March 20, 2023, 10:24:05 AM

We know the drill
Introduced before the election to show the tories care.
Small group of tories, the usual suspects calling for voter ID, deride this scheme as an attack on british freedoms.
Tories elected
Scheme withdrawn shortly afterward.

Excessively cynical. I'm emphatically no defender of the Tories, but this sounds like a good idea to me. However, I haven't got a smartphone, only a dimphone, so it won't affect me.

Title: Re: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 21, 2023, 08:47:17 AM

Quote from: SteveH on March 20, 2023, 10:29:35 PM

Excessively cynical. I'm emphatically no defender of the Tories, but this sounds like a good idea to me. However, I haven't got a smartphone, only a dimphone, so it won't affect me.

It is a good idea but it costs money and after all only those with reserved places in shelters need to be informed.

Title: Re: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2023, 01:42:56 PM

How to switch it off and why you might want to.


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/how-to-turn-off-emergency-alerts-phone-155142556.html