Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

Wed Oct 3 20:28:29 UTC 2018

Anecdotally, we had staff feeding off of both AT&T and VZW IP-based
metrocells get the alert message.

Ray

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 12:53:57PM -0700, mike.lyon at gmail.com wrote:
> Iphone, vzw, silicon valley, rcvd.
> 
> Interesting question though... I wonder if people on micro-cells
> and/or wifi calling don’t get the alerts. That would be extremely
> dumb and irresponsible of the cell phone carriers, so its likely the
> case :)
> 
> In rural America where cell coverage may not exist but the customer
> may have PTMP wireless internet and is using a microcell and/or wifi
> calling over the internet, if they dont get the alert, that could be
> catastrophic. Something along the lines of the Santa Rosa, CA fires
> catastrophic.
> 
> I wonder if that is the case.
> 
> -Mike