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Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?


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On Sun, 7 Sep 2025 14:10:15 -0000 (UTC)
Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in
airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

I didn't even turn mine on until 3:02, but the Alert was instantly
there.
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Davey.

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On 07/09/2025 15:10, Tweed wrote:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

Well, mine was switched on and not in airplane mode, and I didn't get
the 3pm alert. But that was because I'd switched emergency alerts off!
Is it possible that your phone was also set to ignore Emergency Alerts?
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Jeff
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On 07/09/2025 15:10, Tweed wrote:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

I didn't, but I didn't get it last time.

Old phone.

James

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On 15:10 7 Sep 2025, Tweed said:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in
airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

An alert popped up on my screen and a very clear voice read its
contents. The voice was unusually high quality with no audio artefacts.

Was that voice generated by my phone using text to speech - or was
audio sent to my phone with the alert(which seems unlikely)?
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On 07/09/2025 15:10, Tweed wrote:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

Yes. My Samsung Galaxy A51 with a Smarty SIM did it.
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Brian Gregory (in England).
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On Sun 07/09/2025 20:33, Pamela wrote:

On 15:10 7 Sep 2025, Tweed said:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in
airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

An alert popped up on my screen and a very clear voice read its
contents. The voice was unusually high quality with no audio artefacts.

Was that voice generated by my phone using text to speech - or was
audio sent to my phone with the alert(which seems unlikely)?

We were in the car at he time. I thought I had switched it off but being
a Moto phone it probably means that you can never miss an urgent call
from "The Donald."

Nonetheless when it went off my phone alerted itself, but the speech
that followed came through the car (integral) hands free and there was
no on-screen indication of an incoming call.

And why the heck does everything DVLA have to be repeated in Welsh??
What about the several different forms of Gaelic?


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On 07/09/2025 15:10, Tweed wrote:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

Yes. 4G phone but only 2G signal (and wifi).

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On 07/09/2025 15:10, Tweed wrote:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

Well I didn't get it but that was because I was in a group of about a
dozen people having a guided tour of a church at the time. Two of us,
it turned out, had the foresight to turn our phones off in order that
the alert wouldn't interrupt our tour. But I think all of the others
did get the alert. I had expected them all to go off at once, whereas
in fact they went off mostly one at a time over a period of about 10
minutes.

I suppose for most emergencies a 10-minute delay doesn't matter much,
but for some (earthquake, tornado, incoming atomic bomb) it might.
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Clive Page

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Clive Page <usenet@page2.eu> wrote:

I suppose for most emergencies a 10-minute delay doesn't matter much,
but for some (earthquake, tornado, incoming atomic bomb) it might.

A 300kt thermonuclear device detonated at 100 miles above the North Sea
will wipe out most electronic devices in NW Europe, so the message is
likely to come in after your phone, etc, is toast.

The effect of the detonation will be more pronounced if the device is configured to develop enhanced EMP.

Putting your phone in a biscuit tin wonrCOt help, itrCOll still get blatted. Anyway, the cells wonrCOt be working either.

They say werCOre only nine meals from anarchyrCa
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Spike

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On 07:41 8 Sep 2025, Woody said:

On Sun 07/09/2025 20:33, Pamela wrote:

On 15:10 7 Sep 2025, Tweed said:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in
airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

An alert popped up on my screen and a very clear voice read its
contents. The voice was unusually high quality with no audio
artefacts.

Was that voice generated by my phone using text to speech - or was
audio sent to my phone with the alert(which seems unlikely)?

We were in the car at he time. I thought I had switched it off but
being a Moto phone it probably means that you can never miss an
urgent call from "The Donald."

Nonetheless when it went off my phone alerted itself, but the speech
that followed came through the car (integral) hands free and there
was no on-screen indication of an incoming call.

And why the heck does everything DVLA have to be repeated in Welsh??
What about the several different forms of Gaelic?

The very pleasantly enunciated female English voice I heard from my
phone, utterly mangled the Welsh part of the alert and pronounced those
words in the most stilted way,

Perhaps text could incorporate a language identifier ... although then
you would probably get a true Welsh accent (or French, Russian,
whatever) that sounded even more incomprehensible!
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Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone in the UK with a switched on mobile that has signal, not in airplane mode, not get the 3pm alert?

I got it. Which is an improvement over last time.

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On 08/09/2025 12:18, Spike wrote:

They say werCOre only nine meals from anarchyrCa

It is not purely for a nuclear attack warning.

It has been used at once in the UK to give a real warning.

I was at a talk about the Battle of Britain, I think I had muted mine
and it went off once. But someone else's phone kept going off for about
half an hour.



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