Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

[Nate Metheny <nate () santafe edu>]

Here in Santa Fe on Android / TMO no message was received.

On 10/03/2018 01:23 PM, Milt Aitken wrote:
> I got it on a Verizon Android.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Andy Ringsmuth
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 2:53 PM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test
>
> Did anyone on AT&T or an iPhone receive the test today? I believe it was supposed to happen at 2:18 EDT, followed by 
> one on broadcast radio at 2:20 EDT.
>
> I’m in CDT, so 1:18 and 1:20 p.m. CDT.
>
> Message was heard on my desk radio at 1:21:35 p.m. CDT but as of the sending of this at 1:52 p.m. CDT, nothing on phones. I 
> have an office full of AT&T iPhones and not a single one of them alerted.
>
> FEMA says https://www.fema.gov/emergency-alert-test
>
> "Cell towers will broadcast the WEA test for approximately 30 minutes beginning at 2:18 p.m. EDT. During this time, WEA 
> compatible cell phones that are switched on, within range of an active cell tower, and whose wireless provider participates in 
> WEA should be capable of receiving the test message. Some cell phones will not receive the test message, and cell phones should 
> only receive the message once."
>
> My wife, with a Sprint iPhone, received the test.
>
>
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