[outages] IPAWS/FEMA National Test - VoWIFI

[Ryan Kearney]

This conversation should have been moved to -discussion hours ago.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 6:35:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [outages] IPAWS/FEMA National Test - VoWIFI

Also, I believe this specific type of alert cannot be disabled in the U.S.  This is the “dear taxpayer, nuclear war has just broken out and you’re gonna die horribly but we wanted you to have some time to have regrets” alert.

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On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 15:36, Carlos Alvarez via Outages <outages at outages.org<mailto:On%20Wed,%20Oct%204,%202023%20at%2015:36,%20Carlos%20Alvarez%20via%20Outages%20<<a%20href=>> wrote:
Yesterday I verified that I had everything disabled, and still got the test.


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Carlos Alvarez
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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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