Oddbean new post about login | logout @f1c6c5c3 Those don't keep a bare minimum cellular connection open? Glad I disabled it. So many things can silently go wrong and you'd have no idea you've missed a call and based on what you've said it sounds like the network wouldn't "realize" it and fall back to that standard cellular connection.
@67fa73ee Depends on your phone. If the cellular radio is off (or you don't have one in the first place), no WEA alerts for you.
@f1c6c5c3 @67fa73ee Is the alert a one shot, or will it end up queued like a text message?
@54ea3b55 @67fa73ee It’s treated differently from an SMS - It’s a broadcast from each base station to any handset rather than addressed to each subscriber. So if you’re in range of a base station during the period where it’s broadcast, you get it (once, and then your phone ignores duplicates of the same message). It was broadcast for 20 minutes during today’s test. so if your phone was off from about 2:20-2:40 eastern, you wouldn’t ever see it.