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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaliyah Rugg

I 'jumped out of my skin' when government alert sounded at 3am

People across the country claim to have been rudely awakened by the UK's emergency alert siren in the early hours of the morning.

The government tested the new national emergency alert system on Sunday afternoon, with a siren sounding on millions of phones at 3pm. The loud blared from all devices using 4G and 5G networks in the UK.

The alert rang for 10 seconds and displayed a message notifying phone users that no action was needed in response to the test. However just after the test, reports poured in that the alerts were either early, late, or did not arrive at all.

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