On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Ryan McGinnis via Outages wrote:
Also, I believe this specific type of alert cannot be disabled in the U.S.
This is the “dear taxpayer, nuclear war has just broken out and
you’re gonna die horribly but we wanted you to have some time to have
regrets” alert.
In the Europ
This conversation should have been moved to -discussion hours ago.
From: Outages on behalf of Ryan McGinnis via
Outages
Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 6:35:08 PM
To: Outages
Subject: Re: [outages] IPAWS/FEMA National Test - VoWIFI
Also, I believe this
Also, I believe this specific type of alert cannot be disabled in the U.S. This
is the “dear taxpayer, nuclear war has just broken out and you’re gonna die
horriblybut we wanted you to have some time to have regrets” alert.
Ryan McGinnis
r...@digicana.com
[https://bigstormpicture.com](http://big
- Original Message -
> From: "Jay R. Ashworth via Outages"
> I could be unsurprised to find that the carrier VoWIFI proxies missed out on
> proxying SMS Cell Broadcast, which I gather provides the underlying PHY for
> CMAS.
I have now an authoritative report that no, the carrier WIFI pro
They do not use the test header for these NPTs so your phone sees it as a
valid alert.
Benjamin
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023, 1:37 PM Carlos Alvarez via Outages
wrote:
> Yesterday I verified that I had everything disabled, and still got the
> test.
>
>
> —
> Carlos Alvarez
> 602-368-6403
> On Oct 4, 202
Yesterday I verified that I had everything disabled, and still got the test.
—
Carlos Alvarez
602-368-6403
On Oct 4, 2023 at 1:34 PM -0700, Brandon Svec via Outages
, wrote:
> If not aware, it is possible to disable test alerts on iPhone like today’s
> specifically. https://support.apple.com/en
If not aware, it is possible to disable test alerts on iPhone like today’s
specifically. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516
I noticed mine was off the other day and turned it on in anticipation of
today’s test.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 4, 2023, at 12:27 PM, Jay R. Ashworth via Outage
Confirming from my end as well. I happen to have no phone service for the past
7 days for mysterious reasons, though VoWIFI and regular SMS works, but I did
not get the emergency alert.
On 10/4/23, 3:27 PM, "Outages on behalf of Jay R. Ashworth via Outages"
mailto:outages-boun...@outages.org>
I have a report from a usually reliable source that he did not receive today's
IPAWS/CMAS/WEA test message, and he surmises this might be because his phone
handset is forced to VoWIFI. I have a number of other reports, mostly though
not all, from the broadcast engineering community; nobody reporte
