Emergency Alert Broadcast - How was it for you?
Posted: 23 Apr 2023, 21:50
For weeks now we have been bombarded with information about the UK Emergency Alert Broadcast on our mobile phones. So with great anticipation, as 3pm approached, my wife and I were sat in a garden-centre cafe with our phones on the table waiting for something to happen.
The Cafe was packed. Well over 100 people enjoying an afternoon snack, or some cake and a coffee. All the normal hustle and bustle that you would expect.
2.59 and a strange tone was heard from the table next to us. A gentleman took his phone out of his pocket and then put it away. 3pm - nothing. 3.01, the tone was heard from another table. Still nothing from ours. 20 minutes later, puzzled and disappointed, we had finished our drinks and decided to be on our way. As we left, the tone was heard for a third time.
So, if this is viewed as a representative sample, only 3% of the population received the notification.
How about you? Did you get the alert?
The Cafe was packed. Well over 100 people enjoying an afternoon snack, or some cake and a coffee. All the normal hustle and bustle that you would expect.
2.59 and a strange tone was heard from the table next to us. A gentleman took his phone out of his pocket and then put it away. 3pm - nothing. 3.01, the tone was heard from another table. Still nothing from ours. 20 minutes later, puzzled and disappointed, we had finished our drinks and decided to be on our way. As we left, the tone was heard for a third time.
So, if this is viewed as a representative sample, only 3% of the population received the notification.
How about you? Did you get the alert?
