Keep in mind that the delivery of something of this scale almost certainly cannot be entirely simultaneous. Pushing hundreds of millions of messages, through various channels, to hundreds of millions of devices will absolutely take time. At least a few minutes.
Twitter has entire server racks dedicated to individual accounts, just to handle the fan-out.
No. I worked for a major carrier, and have my own business now integrating 5g equipment. It doesn't work that way, not at all. It isn't 'hundreds of millions of messages', it's one. It's a sms (short message system) that's entered either on a console or a web gui that's less than a kilobyte in size. It's one sms broadcast across the entire network, and the size of the data is insanely small compared to a YouTube video buffering to your phone. The delay of the message has to do with how far you are from a tower, when the last time your device was rebooted, and how long your device has been connected to the network without rebooting.
Whenever you boot up your phone, or connect to a tower, you are assigned an IPv6 address. That IP address is you on the network, and linked to your imsi (international mobile subscriber identity), which is the SIM card on your phone. As you move around throughout the day, that IP goes with you until you change geographical locations, which means you move from one MSC (Mobile Switching Center) to another MSC (think Spokane to Boise). There's different Quality of Service built into cell sites for voice, voice over IP, data, streaming, sms, etc. The longer you have that unique IP address that was assigned to you, the lower you drop on the QoS scale. Ever notice how if your call quality is garbage, you either reboot your phone or put it in airplane mode and it gets better? It's because you were assigned a new IP address. That's where the delay people are getting is coming from.
My whole point to this, is that this is nothing on the scale of data that runs through a cell phone. Less than nothing, and it only takes a few clicks of a mouse to set up, and with the petabytes of data that cross a carriers network daily, this would never be noticed as any kind of strain at all.
I was in a store. A worker's phone EAS went off. About 2 minutes later my phone went off but in Spanish. I never got the first one in English. Definitely not simultaneous or reliable.
Same here. I didn't get the first wave but my coworkers did, and then a couple minutes I got 3 alert messages along with the tone.
The first was English the second Spanish and the third English, all three said the same thing (I know Spanish), but only the Spanish audio played
Keep in mind that the delivery of something of this scale almost certainly cannot be entirely simultaneous. Pushing hundreds of millions of messages, through various channels, to hundreds of millions of devices will absolutely take time. At least a few minutes.
Twitter has entire server racks dedicated to individual accounts, just to handle the fan-out.
No. I worked for a major carrier, and have my own business now integrating 5g equipment. It doesn't work that way, not at all. It isn't 'hundreds of millions of messages', it's one. It's a sms (short message system) that's entered either on a console or a web gui that's less than a kilobyte in size. It's one sms broadcast across the entire network, and the size of the data is insanely small compared to a YouTube video buffering to your phone. The delay of the message has to do with how far you are from a tower, when the last time your device was rebooted, and how long your device has been connected to the network without rebooting.
Whenever you boot up your phone, or connect to a tower, you are assigned an IPv6 address. That IP address is you on the network, and linked to your imsi (international mobile subscriber identity), which is the SIM card on your phone. As you move around throughout the day, that IP goes with you until you change geographical locations, which means you move from one MSC (Mobile Switching Center) to another MSC (think Spokane to Boise). There's different Quality of Service built into cell sites for voice, voice over IP, data, streaming, sms, etc. The longer you have that unique IP address that was assigned to you, the lower you drop on the QoS scale. Ever notice how if your call quality is garbage, you either reboot your phone or put it in airplane mode and it gets better? It's because you were assigned a new IP address. That's where the delay people are getting is coming from.
My whole point to this, is that this is nothing on the scale of data that runs through a cell phone. Less than nothing, and it only takes a few clicks of a mouse to set up, and with the petabytes of data that cross a carriers network daily, this would never be noticed as any kind of strain at all.
Concur. A service like this would go out in a very efficient "broadcast" mode reserved on the protocol.
Anything less would be a massive engineering failure.
TY Cellular nerd man!
You're welcome, fellow schizo!
Holy! THIS FROG MESSAGES 🐸
A web gui?? Idk why but I figured the EAS system would've been something a bit more antique or sophisticated than an html/js web app lmao
Yes, a web GUI, I believe that's what also ended up being used back at the false alarm Hawaii ballistic missile warning. If I recall correctly.
Also, it was a scheduled alert which means it was already prepared to send anyway.
Depends on how it was designed. This is easy to test. What time did anons get the alert?
14:18 here.
14:18 took a screenshot. I even mentioned to a coworker that the test was 2 minutes early.
Same, but over the car radio was a couple minutes later
14:18
I took a screenshot as well. Central time here and my pic says 13:18.
I found the last like of the message interesting...
Maybe military action is required then?
1418 here as well.
I just noticed that the clock on my stove is 2 minutes ahead. When the alert happened, stove clock said 14:20. So, yes, 14:18 here as well.
All ten of our phones and our radio on the jobsite went off at 14:18. There were comments about it being early.
11:18Am
I was in a store. A worker's phone EAS went off. About 2 minutes later my phone went off but in Spanish. I never got the first one in English. Definitely not simultaneous or reliable.
Mine appeared in spanish as well but I noticed it said 1 of 2 so I tapped it and it changed to English.
Same here. I didn't get the first wave but my coworkers did, and then a couple minutes I got 3 alert messages along with the tone. The first was English the second Spanish and the third English, all three said the same thing (I know Spanish), but only the Spanish audio played
I was driving with a passenger who got the test message about thirty seconds before I did
It's not 1980 anymore.