Hi, Andy.

I don't have a helpful answer for you, because I'm at the NANOG meeting in Canada right now and as far as I could tell none of the attendees' phones alerted. But I am curious if perhaps your office has a micro-cell for AT&T, or something like that, which might have caused different behavior versus the public tower?

Cheers,

-Benson

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 12:22 Andy Ringsmuth <andy@andyring.com> wrote:

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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