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<div><span style="text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This conversation should have been moved to -discussion hours ago.</span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Outages <outages-bounces@outages.org> on behalf of Ryan McGinnis via Outages <outages@outages.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 4, 2023 6:35:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Outages <outages@outages.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [outages] IPAWS/FEMA National Test - VoWIFI</font>
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I believe </span><span dir="auto" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">this
specific type of alert cannot be disabled in the U.S. This is the “dear taxpayer</span><span style="font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">, </span><span style="font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">nuclear
war has just broken out and you’re</span><span dir="auto" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> gonna
die horribly</span><span style="font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><span style="font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">but
we wanted you to have some </span><span style="font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important">time
to have regrets” alert. </span><span style="font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; float:none; display:inline!important"> </span><br>
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<div dir="auto">Ryan McGinnis<br>
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On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 15:36, Carlos Alvarez via Outages <<a class="" href="mailto:On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 15:36, Carlos Alvarez via Outages <<a href=">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:
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<div dir="auto">Yesterday I verified that I had everything disabled, and still got the test. </div>
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<div name="x_messageReplySection">On Oct 4, 2023 at 1:34 PM -0700, Brandon Svec via Outages <outages@outages.org>, wrote:<br>
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If not aware, it is possible to disable test alerts on iPhone like today’s specifically. <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516">https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516</a>
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<div>I noticed mine was off the other day and turned it on in anticipation of today’s test. </div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Oct 4, 2023, at 12:27 PM, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>I have a report from a usually reliable source that he did not receive today's</span><br>
<span>IPAWS/CMAS/WEA test message, and he surmises this might be because his phone</span><br>
<span>handset is forced to VoWIFI. I have a number of other reports, mostly though</span><br>
<span>not all, from the broadcast engineering community; nobody reported expecting</span><br>
<span>a CMAS and not getting it, so that's not data here.</span><br>
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<span>Is anyone on the list involved with the FEMA/IPAWS/CMAS link, or knows someone</span><br>
<span>who is, and has a channel to clear this query up through?</span><br>
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<span>I could be unsurprised to find that the carrier VoWIFI proxies missed out on</span><br>
<span>proxying SMS Cell Broadcast, which I gather provides the underlying PHY for</span><br>
<span>CMAS.</span><br>
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<span>Cheers,</span><br>
<span>-- jra</span><br>
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