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The Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) is expected to be able to work with the much-requested Cell Broadcast warning system from summer 2022.
This is reported by the editorial network in Germany, citing government circles.
Cell broadcast should be "usable by the middle of next year".
According to the report, it is certain that the system will come. The planned alarm system via text messages on the mobile phones will be installed faster than a nationwide network with analog sirens can be restored.
Of the 80,000 working sirens at the beginning of the 1990s, reports say that around 15,000 were last available. Against this background, calls for cell broadcast are getting louder. With its help, all mobile phone owners in an endangered area automatically receive a text message without the BBK or other authorities having their numbers: Cell broadcast can be translated into radio cell transmission - the messages reach all devices in a radio cell like a radio signal are booked in without the sender knowing who it is reaching. The system has been used in other countries for years.
Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU), to whom the office is subordinate, said the last time, according to the newspapers, that the relevant examination would be completed before the federal election on September 26th and will likely be positive.
At the same time, Seehofer and BBK President Armin Schuster emphasized that no warning system alone would help, but only a mixture of several systems.
In the flood disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria, the warning app Nina was used, which, according to the newspapers, only has ten million users.
Critics complain that this is insufficient.
In addition, according to ZDF, in the particularly badly affected district of Ahrweiler, there was not a single warning message via the NINA app, neither before nor during the flood.
The reason for this initially remained unclear.
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