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Did you get the UK Governments text test Alarm earlier?

PSuss1 · 56-60, M
Got this at about 20 past 3...
Matt85 · 36-40, M
No.
I made a similar post just now.
ArtieKat · M
I've got a dual SIM phone (one for work and one for private stuff) - I got TWO messages about 2 minutes apart lol 🤣
Yulianna · 26-30, F
@ArtieKat 😯 you're just a greedy cat...
Fairydust · F
No I turned them off.

Not complying with their BS fear mongering crap.
Fairydust · F
@ArishMell
No I don’t follow Qanon, it means Main stream media.

QAnon is controlled opposition.
SW-User
@Fairydust Glad to see you clearly get your information from far-right sources :)
Fairydust · F
@SW-User
I don’t follow either, I just see the lies and corruption from both sides.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
No, my phone is too old 🤣
MartinII · 70-79, M
ineedadrink · 51-55, M
Was it intentional or a 4:30 a.m. oops like FL had the other morning?
ineedadrink · 51-55, M
@PepsiColaP Too depressing. 😅
@ineedadrink he texts us everything happening in Edinburgh or the UK especially related to road work etc haha I love him 😭
ineedadrink · 51-55, M
@PepsiColaP And he youse. 🥹
Yes. Didn't know in advance it was gonna happen so I thought it was a hoax lol
meJess · F
If you make a private agreement with a company for a service why is the government allowed to hijack it without your consent.

Imagine if they decided you had to give ride shares to civil servants for free.
meJess · F
@ArishMell it’s a cold call, just because a company tells you they were going to send you a test of their service to your mobile phone that doesn’t allow them to do so. This should be an opt in not an opt out decision.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@meJess I defined a cold call as one made without notice.

I think you will find any telephone company has a perfect right to send you any communication it wants! Just as anyone does, in fact. In return for you having the right to ring anyone else.

If you have a portable 'phone and do not want to receive any call on it at any time... just switch it off over that time. Simple.

I keep receiving texts advertising x minutes of free time if I top up by £y in the next z days. Since I spend barely £40 a year on it, I don't bother!

BT uses e-mails instead, trying to persuade me to buy some over-priced "smart"-'phone or subscription sports services; neither of which I want nor need.

However both companies are at liberty to send other service calls, and if that includes public-service alarms so be it. No different from the messages I receive from the doctor or dentist. I do not regard them as stealing anything from me, as you seem to fear.

As it happens this was a "call" from the Government, but you cannot necessarily pick and choose in advance who sends what to you. A call-barring service is reactive, by your choice after the fact; but even that might cover only private numbers, not service ones.
Hasmita · M
@meJess Because we live in a democracy which doesn't allow us to define what democracy means😕
ArishMell · 70-79, M
No. It won't work on my 'phone anyway, even if that was not turned off and in a different room.

However, the BBC News headlines half an hour ago did say many 'phone users say they did not receive it as expected, or did so late, suggesting various network difficulties.

I gather these systems are already used in some countries, for cyclone warnings, for example.
Nimbus · M
Nope.
Turned it off from the settings menu.
No...not on my cheapo non-smart phone
ArtieKat · M
@TheSirfurryanimalWales I've got a dual SIM phone - I got TWO messages about 2 minutes apart lol 🤣
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
Intentional at 3 pm today 🙂
Havesomefun2 · 56-60, M
Nope nothing
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@Havesomefun2 Was your mobile switched on 😂😂
CultOfPersonality · 36-40, M
I got a txt but no alarm
SW-User
no lol, got nothing
Yulianna · 26-30, F
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@Yulianna That could be because you aren’t in the UK. Keep as safe as you can ❤️🌸🌻🌹😍❤️
Yulianna · 26-30, F
@Dlrannie 🌻🌸❤️🇺🇦❤️🌸🌻 of course... that would explain everything...
braveheart21 · 61-69, M
In the uk with a modern phone and nope... No fancy warning at or about 3pm... Usual gov cock up i guess
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@braveheart21 It was broadcast but not everyone received it, and that is more likely by network difficulties than by your easy-get-out "government cock-up"
braveheart21 · 61-69, M
I reckon the amount of people that DIDN'T get it when it's supposed to be a national emergency alarm that makes it a fail or cock up on the official side... The easy get out is network/connection difficulties.... Most of the service providers boast of almost total coverage these days... @ArishMell
Nevertooold · 56-60, M
For those of us not in the UK...what was the text about???
Yulianna · 26-30, F
@Nevertooold ... that the government was about to send you a warning that the government was about to send you a warning... i could go on typing this all night, but i think you get the picture...
Nevertooold · 56-60, M
@Yulianna Yes I get that they sent you a message telling you a message was going to follow....Did you get the warning they said they were going to send?
Yulianna · 26-30, F
@Nevertooold eh, no, i am in Ukraine, quite outside the scope of the British warning... we have our own alarms right now.
Rhode57 · 56-60, M
Yes had tomturn my phone off and on again because it wouldnt work after . Dont know what the damned alarm did but it messed with my phone.
meggie · F
Yes i got it at 1530. I thought it may be spam so didnt reas it all the way through
Lanie78 · 46-50, F
Yep. Makes you wonder what lovely things we have coming out way in the future 🤔
KatyO83 · 41-45, F
Yep. I decided it meant we ought to get out of bed. 🤣
AntisocialTroll · 56-60, F
I turned me phone off, couldn't be doing with it.
SW-User
No, I did not vote for Mr Sunak.
RadioDust · 36-40, M
I did on one phone but not the other
CassandraSissy · 26-30, T
I didn't but Matt did...

🤔
RebelHeart · 36-40, F
Yes. A bit surreal
SW-User
Nope, never arrived on my phone. I guess I'm dead 🤔
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@SW-User Either dead or not in the UK 😂😂
SW-User
@Dlrannie I'm in UK so definitely dead 😬
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@SW-User Sorry about your death 😂😂😂
SW-User
Yes. Woke me up
HeidiA · 41-45, F
samanthaX · 41-45, T

 
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