60 percent of cell phones in Manitoba didn’t receive the emergency alert test yesterday.
Telus was one of the carriers that reported issues transmitting the message.
Minister of Infrastructure, Ron Schuler is pleased how the system worked.
“I’m very pleased to say, from everything I understand, that through Emergency Measures, our system worked 100 per cent. So the issue was not with the system that we provided, it had to do with the providers themselves.”
The province is giving wireless carriers a year to get their technology compatible for the system and will test again in May 2019.
The test warning was also issued over radio and television to compensate for those areas with no or poor cell service.
