At around 3pm on Sunday afternoon (September 7), mobiles connected to 4G and 5G networks vibrated and sounded for approximately 10 seconds in the second test of the Government's emergency alert system – following the first in 2023.

But some individuals expressed worry that their alert was delayed or did not sound at all. One individual commented: "The government telling us the emergency alert would go off at 3:00pm but it actually went off at 3:01pm.

"The emergency alert looms," another responded. Others lamented they hadn't received it at all. "Did anyone else not get the emergency test alert? no message, no noise, nothing," someone queried, reports the Mirror .

Prior to the test, the Government stated alerts would be dispatched to "all compatible 4G and 5G mobile phones and compatib

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