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  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds
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  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds
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Mine worked fine. Phone, watch & Bluetooth to car stereo all went off at 3pm on the dot. 

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  • Location: East Lothian
  • Weather Preferences: Not too hot, excitement of snow, a hoolie
  • Location: East Lothian
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The teenagers, on various service providers, said that (as they walk about with their precious data turned OFF) they only got the emergency alert when they got near Wi-Fi,

Is that likely- or just a confused view with all the timing issues? I thought it was supposed to be a text, not like a WhatsApp and so available in many (but not all) areas. East Lothian is not the Highlands.

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  • Location: South Ockendon, Thurrock, SW Essex
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I got mine yesterday, exactly at 3pm.  At first I have it was my careline box being activated and then I looked my laptop's clock and remembered that it was the emergency alert.  What amazed was that the emergency alert was spoken in American accent.

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
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Just checked the phone settings and emergency alerts are set to on. On three but other people have got alerts to three.

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  • Location: St rads Dover
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9 hours ago, Jo Farrow said:

The teenagers, on various service providers, said that (as they walk about with their precious data turned OFF) they only got the emergency alert when they got near Wi-Fi,

Is that likely- or just a confused view with all the timing issues? I thought it was supposed to be a text, not like a WhatsApp and so available in many (but not all) areas. East Lothian is not the Highlands.

No 4g or above, or WiFi. I was out and about data on, so perhaps was in a blank spot, at home every device went off, probably from WiFi.

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