Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

[Stan Barber <sob () academ com>]

I got it on ATT IPhone I have and a Verizon Pixel as well.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 1:38 PM Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson () esri com> wrote:

> Anecdotally, we had staff feeding off of both AT&T and VZW IP-based
> metrocells get the alert message.
>
> Ray
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 12:53:57PM -0700, mike.lyon () gmail com wrote:
> > Iphone, vzw, silicon valley, rcvd.
> >
> > Interesting question though... I wonder if people on micro-cells
> > and/or wifi calling don’t get the alerts. That would be extremely
> > dumb and irresponsible of the cell phone carriers, so its likely the
> > case :)
> >
> > In rural America where cell coverage may not exist but the customer
> > may have PTMP wireless internet and is using a microcell and/or wifi
> > calling over the internet, if they dont get the alert, that could be
> > catastrophic. Something along the lines of the Santa Rosa, CA fires
> > catastrophic.
> >
> > I wonder if that is the case.
> >
> > -Mike