[outages] IPAWS/FEMA National Test - VoWIFI

[Benjamin Monjay]

They do not use the test header for these NPTs so your phone sees it as a
valid alert.

Benjamin

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023, 1:37 PM Carlos Alvarez via Outages <outages at outages.org>
wrote:

> Yesterday I verified that I had everything disabled, and still got the
> test.
>
>
> —
> Carlos Alvarez
> 602-368-6403
> On Oct 4, 2023 at 1:34 PM -0700, Brandon Svec via Outages <
> outages at outages.org>, wrote:
>
> If not aware, it is possible to disable test alerts on iPhone like today’s
> specifically. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516
>
> I noticed mine was off the other day and turned it on in anticipation of
> today’s test.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 4, 2023, at 12:27 PM, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <
> outages at outages.org> wrote:
>
> I have a report from a usually reliable source that he did not receive
> today's
> IPAWS/CMAS/WEA test message, and he surmises this might be because his
> phone
> handset is forced to VoWIFI.  I have a number of other reports, mostly
> though
> not all, from the broadcast engineering community; nobody reported
> expecting
> a CMAS and not getting it, so that's not data here.
>
> Is anyone on the list involved with the FEMA/IPAWS/CMAS link, or knows
> someone
> who is, and has a channel to clear this query up through?
>
> I could be unsurprised to find that the carrier VoWIFI proxies missed out
> on
> proxying SMS Cell Broadcast, which I gather provides the underlying PHY for
> CMAS.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
> --
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