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Amber alert

leekhs — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:24:08 GMT

I did not receive the amber alert dated October 1, 2019. So public mobile members receive amber alerts?

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GR — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 23:42:20 GMT

@leekhs is your phone compatible for amber alerts and was it on the LTE network when it came out?

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sheytoon — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:05:17 GMT

Yes, PM subsribers will receive amber alerts if they meet the criteria:

Be in an area that receives the alert
Have a compatible phone
Be registered on the LTE network

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Ninja0628 — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:06:09 GMT

Yes, PM numbers receive amber alerts, but I think the type of device you have factors into getting the alert as well.

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leekhs — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 01:03:43 GMT

Yes my iPhone is compatible for amber alerts as I always received them before switching to public. As for LTE, yes it was although I never needed to be on it with previous carrier.

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cavemantoronto — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 02:51:20 GMT

@leekhs wrote:
I did not receive the amber alert dated October 1, 2019. So public mobile members receive amber alerts?

You need to be on LTE during the alert. If you are on 3g because you are on call, you get alert after switching back.

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Pound — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 16:37:26 GMT

Never missed an amber alert. My android phone without a SIM card receives amber alerts, everytime. (Manual smiling face emoji)

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CS_Agent — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:04:20 GMT

Hi there,

Here are a couple of excerpts from the Wireless Public Alerting - Conditions :

Customers must have a WPA capable smartphone with the latest software version installed.
Customers must be connected to the LTE network and within the geo-targeted area while the alert is being broadcast.

Public Mobile Moderator team

Re: Amber alert

Korth — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 09:32:15 GMT

There's a lot of GSM literature about SMS (and MMS) protocols. Including SMS-CB or CB-SMS (Cellular Broadcast modes, sent from the network to all connected compatible devices). Cellular Broadcasts can be at national, provincial, or regional (municipal) levels - and they're unselective, if your device has power and is compatible then it gets alerts (regardless of your carrier or your country), if your device is unpowered or out of range then it gets no alerts.

It's (slowly) becoming internationally standardized. Canada's flavour is Alert Ready. Now officially operational in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Quebec - unofficially operational in Ontario - plus some other coverage zones, minus some blind spots. Initially proposed by the Big Three telcoms and the CBC (and strongly opposed by the CRTC), ironically now a CRTC-regulated gongshow (which the CBC uses very reluctantly and Big Four have made the CWTA advocate repeatedly for allowing customer opt-outs).

Some customers (and the CRTC) argue that the system can save lives. Some customers don't want random alerts about faraway emergencies (or tests) forcing their phones to override all user controls with distinctly alarming and annoying noises.

Some SMS apps used to provide user settings to block SMS-MT/SMS-OT (paid network advertisements) and SMS-CB (emergency broadcasts, disaster response, national defense, extreme weather warnings, amber alerts, etc) - sometimes as generic on/off, sometimes as specific categories. The CRTC has disallowed all SMS-CB blocking features in Canada (because it could save lives!) so if you want to block alert broadcasts (you insensitive monster!) then you'll have to get a little creative in finding the "old" versions of these apps (or compile your own SMS-CB blocking app from modded github sourcecode).

https://www.alertready.ca/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert_Ready

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MoreYummy — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 09:59:40 GMT

I can receive amber alert on phone without sim card, and no service either.

As long as your device can connect to their specific network, it works .