Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones

[Nearly Sane]

For info


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

[Udayana]

hmm... sounds terrible.

[jeremyp]

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

[Walt Zingmatilder]

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Scheme withdrawn shortly afterward.

[SteveH]

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Scheme withdrawn shortly afterward.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.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

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.

[Nearly Sane]

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