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.
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.