Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 12:25 PM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> Emergency alerts are built into all android, ios and other mobile phones
> sold in almost every country during the last 5 years.  GSM standards are
> global.  The U.S. finally changed "presidential alert" to "national alert"
> recently.


Well, today's alert still showed up as "Presidential Alert", so I guess the
US hasn't quite finished changing over yet.  ^_^;
(Samsung Galaxy phone)

Matt