Some residents did not receive warning messages on their phones during the exercise due to the settings

“The reasons why the subscriptions of one of the operators did not receive the message, because in fact we finally got the answers yesterday, we have – the relevant settings in the program led to the fact that this is exactly what happened,” Civil Protection of the Fire Protection and Rescue Department (PAGD) told LRT radio on Wednesday. head of the board Edgaras Geda.

According to him, the error has already been fixed.

He was speaking after complaints were heard in the public space after Monday’s exercise that not all residents received them. The Minister of the Interior, Agnė Bilotaitė, said at the time that “customers of one operator” did not receive the messages.

“This is not an SMS system, this is a system of a certain higher priority. At that time, in 2012, we were in principle the first to use that system,” said E. Geda.

“As you probably understand, since 2012, our respective computer operating systems and software systems have changed several or a dozen times, and we are practically stuck with that old geld,” he added.

According to E. Geda, in order to solve this problem and update the system, no less than 5 million is needed. funds amounting to EUR. He said that such investments have been foreseen by the Government and added that he hoped that the Seimas would also approve them.


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2024-04-05 22:38:09

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