[EAS] Multilingual WEA alerts and stuck WEA alerts
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Sat Sep 2 14:27:33 CDT 2017
Santa Clara County, California has been sending WEA heat alerts in
multiple languages: english, spanish, and vietnamese.
It looks like WEA still has problem with stuck alerts. Some people's
mobile phones are getting three alerts every hour for the duration of the
WEA alert. In this case every hour or so, 24-hours day-and-night. Its
still not clear if this is a software quirk in the mobile phone or some
quirk in the wireless carrier network. It doesn't happen on every
network, or every phone, or every time: so its not a problem on the alert
originator side.
https://twitter.com/Mailyfesux/status/903901389864108032
https://twitter.com/tonytwt/status/903775651240579072
And, just as the wireless carriers warned about --- site congestion is an
issue for URLs included in alert messages
https://twitter.com/dothewww/status/903737329902280704
Eventually, the number or URL requests slowed down and the Santa Clara web
site was able to catch up.
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