Review announced into why some mobile phones did not receive UK test alert
A review will be conducted to find out why a “very small proportion of mobile users” did not receive the test of a new national emergency alert system on Sunday. The Cabinet Office said the “vast majority of compatible phones” received the alert as part of what was said to be the biggest public communications exercise carried out in the UK. But the Government department said it was aware that the 10- second alarm and message notification was not delivered to some mobile phones. Customers on the Three mobile phone network were among those to report not receiving the communication test. The network provider said it would be working with the UK Government to understand what had happened. A smallContinue Reading