Does the German one play a sound too? When I was in Korea I received alert messages but there was no associated “siren” like this.
Comment on Emergency warning text and siren to be sent to every phone in Australia [July 27 at 2pm AEST]
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Germany has been doing these or a while now, works quite good (the tests at least). It only works when your phone is connected to a cell tower, though, that£s not really a problem over here in Germany but it could be quite a big one in Australia.
I don£t think cell coverage isn’t that good in the Outback, even with Vodaphone doubling their network coverage (har har).
Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 day ago
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It does play a sound at full volume. I was in a waiting room at my GP when they sent the test alerts in 2023 or so, it was quite funny hearing every phone in the room going off one by one.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
Oh yes, I have actually seen this before now that I think about it. A German streamer received one of these alerts about a month ago because there was a chemical accident in his city.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
One thing that’s worth noting is that you don’t need to be connected to a tower to receive the alert. You could be a Vodafone customer and get the alert if there’s only Telstra service where you are.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Your phone still has to be able to connect to a tower (of any provider), no?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 21 hours ago
Yes. But if it doesn’t, it’s also highly unlikely that one of these emergency warnings would apply to you anyway. Not many cyclones hitting the deep outback.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Ahhh … bushfires?