Will your phone get the Govt’s emergency alert?

Do you remember what you were doing at 3pm on Sunday 23 April 2023? If your phone was switched on, you probably heard it play a 10-second alarm and vibrate loudly, then picked it up in shock and saw an emergency alert from the Government telling you it was just a test. Phew! We say ‘probably’ because not every phone received the alert. Most did – an estimated 60 million, around 93 per cent of compatible devices in the UK. However, five million people on the Three mobile network didn’t receive it...