Is the emergency alert system working properly on 2D?

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#2670859 10-Mar-2021 07:49

It has occurred to me that wife's ipad and iphone have been linked since IOS14 for a lot of things but my android makes so much noise with the voice message that neither of us can remember whether the ipad mirrored the alert on her phone.

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#2670862 10-Mar-2021 08:03

SaltyNZ:

As an aside I did double check that there was no cell broadcast support on VoWifi access (not completely implausible since it emulates some aspects of the normal access network) and the consensus is no, not that bit of it.

What happens to a device connected to VoWiFi (and using this as the primary connection) while being simultaneously attached to a 2G/3G/4G site? Will it receive SMS-CB messages?

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#2670864 10-Mar-2021 08:08

sbiddle:

SaltyNZ:

As an aside I did double check that there was no cell broadcast support on VoWifi access (not completely implausible since it emulates some aspects of the normal access network) and the consensus is no, not that bit of it.

What happens to a device connected to VoWiFi (and using this as the primary connection) while being simultaneously attached to a 2G/3G/4G site? Will it receive SMS-CB messages?

If you are still in cellular coverage you get the alerts just like anyone else. The handset does not detach from the cellular network while on VoWifi. It's only an issue if your only connectivity is VoWifi, with no cellular to camp on. Such circumstances are certainly possible (deep in building, perhaps) but you're no worse off than you would have been vis a vis emergency alerts if there was no VoWifi.

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