At 3pm BST, every phone in Britain is due to receive a loud alarm as a test for future emergencies
If you want to know more than is strictly necessary about the technical journey behind today’s test, civil servant Frazer Rhodes, who led the emergency alerts process at the environment agency, has written a three part blog series about the development process. Did you know the first iteration of the alerts was known as the “fainting goat rental”?
We had test messages for Alpacas, Capybara and in this case, overly curious llamas. None of these messages were created or sent on the production service of course.
Users were initially mistrusting of the message using language such as scam and pop-up. The inclusion of GOV.UK helped provide some reassurance.
The sound was generally the first thing that attracted their attention and often their first response was to silence this.
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At 3pm BST, every phone in Britain is due to receive a loud alarm as a test for future emergencies
How to disable UK emergency alerts on your phone
If you want to know more than is strictly necessary about the technical journey behind today’s test, civil servant Frazer Rhodes, who led the emergency alerts process at the environment agency, has written a three part blog series about the development process. Did you know the first iteration of the alerts was known as the “fainting goat rental”?
We had test messages for Alpacas, Capybara and in this case, overly curious llamas. None of these messages were created or sent on the production service of course.
Users were initially mistrusting of the message using language such as scam and pop-up. The inclusion of GOV.UK helped provide some reassurance.
The sound was generally the first thing that attracted their attention and often their first response was to silence this. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian