UK mobile firms asked to alert Britons to heed coronavirus lockdown
by Mark Sweney from on (#515AB)
Ministers call on mobile companies to send mass broadcast to reach up to 60m people
The UK government has taken the unprecedented step of asking mobile companies to send an alert to everyone in the UK telling them to heed the new nationwide lockdown rules.
It is the first time ministers have called upon all the UK's mobile operators - including O2, EE, Three and Vodafone - to send a mass broadcast that will reach as many as 60 million people across the country. Only 4% of households do not have at least one mobile phone, according to the communications regulator, Ofcom.
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