The company operating Canada’s new national public alert system for mobile devices, Pelmorex Inc., said it would investigate after a test of the system was hit and miss in Ontario and misfired in Quebec.
Shortly after the test for the Alert Ready System to mobile devices in Ontario, yesterday afternoon, social media was flooded with messages from people confirming they got it or they didn’t.
A space incorrectly included in the coding prevented the Alert Ready System from sending the Quebec test message to compatible wireless devices earlier in the day, but the Quebec test did broadcast successfully on TV and radio.
In a statement, Pelmorex says the test failed due to a computer glitch, which they are working on correcting as soon as possible.
