Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov issued an order on April 30 to five ministries and several departments to get the BG-Alert system to work properly “or there will be no forgiveness”.
The BG-Alert system, involving emergency messages to mobile phones about disaster situations, was launched in 2023 but has attracted controversy because of incidents in which emergencies occurred but no signals were received.
There have been tests of the system, but large numbers of subscribers received on message, for which those in charge of the system blamed the subscribers for not setting the systems of their phones to
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