Did you get the UK Governments text test Alarm earlier?

@ArtieKat 😯 you're just a greedy cat...

@ArishMell
No I don’t follow Qanon, it means Main stream media.

QAnon is controlled opposition.

@Fairydust Glad to see you clearly get your information from far-right sources :)

@SW-User
I don’t follow either, I just see the lies and corruption from both sides.

@PepsiColaP Too depressing. 😅

@ineedadrink he texts us everything happening in Edinburgh or the UK especially related to road work etc haha I love him 😭

@PepsiColaP And he youse. 🥹

@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.

@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.

@meJess Because we live in a democracy which doesn't allow us to define what democracy means😕

@TheSirfurryanimalWales I've got a dual SIM phone - I got TWO messages about 2 minutes apart lol 🤣

@Havesomefun2 Was your mobile switched on 😂😂

@Yulianna That could be because you aren’t in the UK. Keep as safe as you can ❤️🌸🌻🌹😍❤️

@Dlrannie 🌻🌸❤️🇺🇦❤️🌸🌻 of course... that would explain everything...

@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"

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 ... 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...

@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?

@Nevertooold eh, no, i am in Ukraine, quite outside the scope of the British warning... we have our own alarms right now.

@SW-User Either dead or not in the UK 😂😂

@Dlrannie I'm in UK so definitely dead 😬

@SW-User Sorry about your death 😂😂😂