(Government of Manitoba live stream)Manitoba Infrastructure Minister Ron Schuler says there will be changes after only 60 percent of Manitoba's mobile phone users received the most recent alarm from the Emergency Alert Ready System.

An Amber Alert was issued early Monday morning after a 6-year-old girl was abducted in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. The girl was strapped in a child seat in the back of her family's idling SUV when the vehicle was stolen from outside a North Battleford strip mall where her mother had run inside to a business there.

About 40 percent of cell phone users in Manitoba did not receive the message, finding out via the news or social media later in the day.

Schuler says some phones are just too old and do not have the right software or technology to receive the alert. He encourages those people to replace their phones.

He says that changes will be made starting this spring where any phone sold, whether on 3g, 4g or LTE, will receive all signals.