[EAS] WEA results?

[Gary Timm]

In tallying the four emails that reported on a significant number of users, I get about 75% received it, 25% didn't receive it.
I was at first encouraged when both my AT&T and Verizon phones got the alert 5 seconds after FEMA sent it (I was watching FEMA push the button online, and they actually sent it at 2:18:15 PM EDT).  I guess that 5-second reception was not the case everywhere.

FWIW, my AT&T phone is a Go-Phone prepaid phone, where I buy more voice/text time each quarter (no Internet access), and my Go-Phone did receive the WEA.  However, my prepaid phone is an LG smartphone that is WEA Enabled, and I know most Tracphone and other prepaid phones are flip phones that are usually not WEA Enabled so would not be expected to receive the WEA message.

Gary Timm

From: Dave Kline <dkline at tvmail.unomaha.edu>

Pretty wide spread if you consider the distance from Alaska to Nebraska...
My wife's Tracphone didn't get the alert either.
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Dave Kline
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On Oct 3, 2018, at 9:17 PM, Rich Parker wrote:

>Another possible outlier - my wife uses a cell phone very little, so she finds it much cheaper to use a Trakfone and just buy minutes when she nerds them. It apparently uses either ATT or GCI towers here in Alaska, but she did not get an alert. I wonder how widespread that problem is?

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