A review will be carried out to establish why a “very small proportion of mobile users” weren't among the millions who received the test of a new national emergency alert.
A loud, 10-second alarm that sounded on phones was heard across the country with many going off just before 3pm.
The Cabinet Office said though the “vast majority of compatible phones” received the alert, it was aware that the 10- second alarm and message notification wasn't delivered to some users.The firm has said it would be working with the Government to work out what happened. Many of those that did receive an altert reported it going off early, with the alarm's audible outside Wembley stadium at 2.58pm.
LBC's tech correspondent Will Guyatt wrote: "For the first time ever, the government does something early. Alert received at 14:59:35."One Twitter user wrote: "I forgot about it and I was eating and I just dropped ketchup on me."John Eldon tweeted: "Was that it? It sounded like they were going to announce tuppence off cabbages in Lidl. Well, that's going by the sound my husband's phone made - mine didn't go off at all.
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