At exactly eleven o'clock today, Germany sounded all the alarm bells. The Federal Office of Civil Defense and Disaster Assistance (BBK) tested alerts across Germany. But some users' phones do not sound an alarm. And the dealer didn't seem to be issued.
has been promoting the full-time warning day for a long time. It seems that many people received the alarm at 11 o'clock today, but some phones did not ring in today's warning. The Federal Office of Civil Defense and Disaster Assistance (BBK) still claims that the early warning test was successful.
Warning Applications NINA and Katwarn did not display messages to all users, and some alerts were not displayed after 20 minutes. According to preliminary information, in particular, many Telekom customers did not receive warnings. The possible reason is that the community broadcasting system will not fully work until February 2023, and some mobile phones that are not alerted may be that the phone is set to mute. In addition, many devices with older versions (such as iPhone 6 or Android 10) cannot use cell broadcast technology.
2020 warning day
Many people are puzzled, why does an early warning day have to make such a big battle? Because the last warning day was a complete failure. The last national warning day was September 10, 2020. It was also a Thursday. The alarm system set up at that time should also be tested nationwide at 11 a.m. But the Federal Civil Defense and Disaster Assistance Office issued a warning half an hour late. As a result, some people said that the alarm test was late, and some people did not receive it at all.
What's amazing is that many cities have removed city sirens in the last century, and some German cities no longer have any large alarm systems at all. This is the case in the capital Berlin, which was very quiet on the 2020 Warning Day. Warning information is only displayed on electronic billboards in public places in cities.
The warning day of 2020 was completely screwed up, and many politicians called for a new start. For this reason, today's National Warning Day on December 8, 2022.
This early warning test seems to have not passed
BBK It is planned to issue a second release of the alarm message at 11:45 am, but it seems that the sending failed. Preliminary reports show that even devices that successfully received the first alarm did not receive a second alarm. The Federal Civil Defense and Disaster Assistance Office believes that the new community broadcasting technology has been "successfully tested". Ralph Tiesler, head of BBK, said: "Based on preliminary findings, the National Warning Day 2022 is a success! Multiple systems are launched interactively and people are beginning to realize the important issues of warnings. It is too early to draw concluding results. We will now evaluate feedback, which will enable further optimization of the system." The next warning day is scheduled in September.
It is not clear why the warning was not sent to all mobile phone users, or why the first alarm can be sent successfully, but the message of resuscitation failed.
different reactions of mobile communications companies
Vodafone said , the first test of the new Cell Broadcast disaster warning system was "successfully successful". "We will now evaluate all the findings of Warning Day and use them to further optimize the new warning system until 2023 is operating properly. The warning system should contain more and older terminal devices than today's first test warning."
o2 Telefónica and Telekom did not comment:
- Telekom said it was too early to give accurate comments on success or failure of the warning day now. "Sending a cell broadcast message is comparable to sending a radio signal and will not immediately receive feedback on how many devices have received the message," said Telekom spokesman Philipp Kornstädt. They will evaluate the test. "The plan to send German warnings to the community broadcast is February 2023."
- o2 Telefónica also issued a cautious statement on Warning Day."Since the transmission is an anonymous process, we cannot ultimately make any statement on the network regarding how many phones have received test warning messages. However, so far, feedback received from customers and company employees suggests that cell phones with cell broadcasting capabilities and online access have received this test warning."
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