The emergency should be rehearsed in Germany on 8 September: no, not an invasion, but a potential weather catastrophe.
Nationwide Alert Day is a rehearsal for emergencies, this year should be very different: for the first time in Germany, based on a warning system
cell broadcast
keep trying. In practice, this should mean that all cell phone owners should receive alerts, not just those who have federal alerts apps installed. now reported
“wirtshaftswitch”
With regard to the responsible officials that the nationwide warning day 2022 is to be postponed. warning day is usually
on the second Thursday of September
, so it would be September 8, 2022. According to sources in “Wirtschaftswoche,” the federal and state governments are agreeing on a new date later in the year. So the reason for the postponement is still the low level of support for DE alarms by modern mobile phones. Currently only Android smartphones with Android 11 and 12 can receive alert SMS, which is about a fifth of all cell phones in Germany. So Apple will simply roll back the option for DE-alerts, as it is called the Cell Broadcast System in Germany with iOS 16.
background
SMS warnings in the event of a disaster in Germany were discussed only after the failed warning day in 2020 and the flood disaster in 2021. Till now, the technical and legal requirements for this have not been available. new telecommunications law and based on
Technical Guidelines De-alert
Cells in Germany provide the basis for broadcasting, but the final version of the guideline was only passed by the Federal Network Agency on February 23, 2022. Although DE-Alert is based on standards already in use, such as the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol or the EU’s EU-Alert, adjustment is required not only by local mobile phone operators, but also implementation by mobile phone manufacturers. Such implementations are not new to Apple: On
Warning messages in the United States are based on common warning protocols.
Because of such a message, the producer is also being sued as it is clear
hearing of a young man
has been damaged. The EU-Alert was first implemented by the Netherlands, the alert has been sent in the country since 2012,
These work on iPhone from iPhone 4S
, Lithuania worked there a year later
State Alerts from iPhone 5S and iOS 8
, Romania started cell broadcasting in 2017, there are alerts
on iPhone X and newer
Sent.
We asked the Press Office of the Federal Office for Civil Defense and Disaster Assistance when exactly Nationwide Warning Day 2022 would be. We asked the Federal Networks Agency how mobile phone manufacturers should take action to support DE-alerts. Answers were not available when this article was published, but we will update this article as soon as we receive a response.
