🔔 This Sunday

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:58 pm

No one has mentioned it, so I will.
Are you aware on Sunday 23 this month the government are testing a new general alert, your mobile phone will make a noise for 10 seconds and you will get a message saying its a test.

I thought it was a novel idea, but sirens would be better.

fin · Post by **fin** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:32 pm

its supposed to go off at half time in the newcastle v tottenham match. doubt itll work inside the stadium as theres never any signal when theres 50k people in a small area.

be canny mad in the pub though when it gans off like

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:06 pm

dont know iff this will apply dont 999 calls go to any network ??? so maybe an all system set up ??
you can also opt out via your phone setting

APDIY · Post by **APDIY** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:04 pm

big-all wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:06 pm dont know iff this will apply dont 999 calls go to any network ??? so maybe an all system set up ??
you can also opt out via your phone setting

Opt out via Aeroplane mode.

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:50 pm

You can be anywhere you like with airplane mode on if you like, it will NOT stop it, its an emergency alert so it overrides almost everything.

I understand that even with "no signal" you can still call 999, it changes to any network it can find, so I am guessing its similar for this.

Ktuludays · Post by **Ktuludays** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 5:52 am

You can turn off emergency notifications in phone settings

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 7:23 am

I cannot see why anyone wants to turn it off, surely you want to know if it works. The object of the alarm is a wide-ranging civil defence aid to notify people if a potential life-threatening event is close to them. I would want to know if I had an incident close to my home. Does it really matter if you get a siren sound for a few seconds? People watch BGT for an hour and that is a disaster.

DWD

Argyll · Post by **Argyll** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:06 am

Imagine all the people having affairs with secret phones hidden in the house and they don't know about it.

It's how my mate caught his ex wife. She forgot to put it on silent. He found it in her knicker drawer

I bet the divorce rate goes through the roof in the next few months.

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:34 am

That's a good point A, I never thought of that. A few phones will be hidden in the shed on Sunday I suspect

DWD

wine~o · Post by **wine~o** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 6:00 pm

Someone-Else wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:50 pm You can be anywhere you like with airplane mode on if you like, it will NOT stop it, its an emergency alert so it overrides almost everything.

I understand that even with "no signal" you can still call 999, it changes to any network it can find, so I am guessing its similar for this.

Only 4G and 5G phones will get it, I don't have a "smart phone" so it won't affect me. But if you are driving could the LOUD alarm distract you ?

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:59 pm

It should be interesting as we will be in a pub restaurant with my mum, sister and BIL on Sunday at 3pm.

DWD

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:17 pm

dewaltdisney wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:59 pmwe will be in a pub restaurant with ...........

............. loads of other people.
It could prove interesting if all phones, any network sound at exactly the same time.

fin · Post by **fin** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:12 pm

i shall let yous know what occurs at the westoe pub on sunday.

well unless the toon are either doing fantastically well or absolutely disastrously and we are discussing that instead.

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 3:28 am

please.

Argyll · Post by **Argyll** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 1:31 pm

Has anyone else been thinking about the movie Kingsman? When everyone's phones ring and they all go mental killing each other except of course the elite.

No Just me?