U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

Matthew Petach mpetach at netflight.com
Wed Oct 4 19:27:28 UTC 2023


On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 12:25 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>
> Emergency alerts are built into all android, ios and other mobile phones
> sold in almost every country during the last 5 years.  GSM standards are
> global.  The U.S. finally changed "presidential alert" to "national alert"
> recently.


Well, today's alert still showed up as "Presidential Alert", so I guess the
US hasn't quite finished changing over yet.  ^_^;
(Samsung Galaxy phone)

Matt
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