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Re:Germany's nationwide emergency warning day sees bumpy rol... by samoa42 on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:12AM (#24441412)
yea for some reason (money?) the agency thought that having ppl install one (or more) app (with sdk-trackers) is more disaster proof and privacy preserving than just sending a sms... with such friends, who needs enemies?
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Re:Germany's nationwide emergency warning day sees bumpy rol... by michaelt on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:37AM (#24442635)
According to [1] it can take "several hours" to SMS a population of 300,000

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU-Alert#Location_based_SMS

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Re:Germany's nationwide emergency warning day sees bumpy rol... by samoa42 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:22AM (#24460359)
i highly doubt that claim based on the fact that it was very common to recieve a dozen new years greetings sms within a few minutes after the new year had started.

apart from that i apologize for using the term 'sms' when i meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast

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