Residents in Barrow and Walney are being advised that BAE Systems will carry out two scheduled alarm tests on Friday, November 14. The first alarm will sound at 10.30am and is an internal system test, ...

On the afternoon of Sunday, September 7, Brits are being warned to brace themselves as the UK government plans to carry out an emergency alert test on all 4G and 5G mobile networks. The Emergency ...

As fears mount over the potential of WW3, the UK will test its emergency alarm system for the first time in two years. All UK devices will blast out an alarm tone later this year in a new test of the ...

Millions of people across the country received the first-ever nationwide test of the government’s new emergency alert system today. While the alert was scheduled to go out at 3pm, many mobile phone ...

This is why it's simply crazy that our telecommunications network is privatised in the first place; it's hard enough for consumers to get a good deal, yet our emergency services are subjected to the ...

Members of the Sentinel Squad UK dressed as Darth Vader and Stormtroopers with their mobile phones during a test of a new emergency public alert system during the Sci Fi Scarborough at The Spa Complex ...

While most UK mobile phones sounded a jarring alarm just before 3 p.m., users on some networks didn’t receive the widely flagged test of a new emergency-warning system. “A very small proportion of ...

This Sunday at 3pm, there will be a UK-wide test of a new national emergency alert system. It will cause every mobile phone in the UK to sound an alarm tone, and cause the handset to vibrate - even if ...

After officially unveiling its Emergency Alerts system last month, the U.K. government is preparing to launch the first nationwide test this Sunday (23 April). The system is designed to notify the ...