essjax
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Apr 11 at 4:25amWeb
Show threadXas Apr 11
@essjax Stay safe up there, you.
Show threadessjaxApr 11
@Xas Am home and hunkering down, hatches battened, thank you 
Show threadRandom Wish Genie  :Apr 11
@essjax Yikes. Here’s hoping it fizzles out before it reaches you.
Show threadErrol CavitApr 11
@essjax A friend was in hospital (for a short stay), there was an initial cluster of alarms, then random singles about every 15 minutes.
Show threadessjaxApr 11
@ErrolNZ I was in a bar and it took about half an hour for everyone to get theirs. It was a cacophony.
Show threadFuture SprogApr 11

I thought they were broadcast on a per cell site basis, so wouldn’t there be a couple of waves as each cell site broadcast it?

Does each phone operator need to push it and so all the cool kids on Spark would reach for their phones then all the boring old dudes with Vodafone, then finally all the 2degrees people (same alert but this time in light blue)

@essjax @ErrolNZ

Show threadErrol CavitApr 11
@futuresprog @essjax They are defined by cell site, not sure how that is actually applied.
Show threadtwo slightly distorted guitarsApr 11
@futuresprog @essjax @ErrolNZ I use two phones - one with a sim card that never connects to the internet, one without sim card that I use for reading things on wifi - and they both get emergency alerts, but at staggered times. The sim card one goes off first by about 10 minutes, usually.