Once once more, right this moment, many cellular customers in India obtained an emergency alert from the federal government. The alert was despatched at round 11:35 with a flash message. It had an emergency tone for all of the Android and iPhone units. Many took to social media platforms and bombarded posts asking as to if there may be any should be apprehensive. “These emergency alert messages are creepy, loud and hella irritating!!!!” wrote an ‘X’ user while posting a screenshot. Another person wrote, “What are these messages about! I just received #EmergencyAlertSystem message, why? Quote text: Emergency alert: Extreme.”

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Everyone appears to be extraordinarily puzzled and confused as to what these texts are about. But is there a should be apprehensive? Let’s discover out.

The exams are a results of the Indian authorities aggressively testing its yet-to-release emergency alerts function. It is not only right this moment that folks obtained these texts. Many customers within the Delhi-NCR area additionally obtained comparable texts on September 15.

The message reads, “This is a SAMPLE TESTING MESSAGE despatched via Cell Broadcasting System by Department of Telecommunication, Government of India. Please ignore this message as no motion is required out of your finish. This message has been despatched to TEST Pan-India Emergency Alert System being carried out by National Disaster Management Authority. It goals to reinforce public security and supply well timed alerts throughout emergencies.”

As per the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), these alerts will be sent and tested on a regular basis. This is being done to ensure that the mobile operators and the cellular infrastructure are well versed with handling emergency broadcasts.