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The application to alert citizens before the major risk situations - "Sistem Alert" - will be developed and implemented by ANCOM (National Authority for Communications Administration and Regulation), IGSU (General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations), STS (Special Telecommunications Service), in collaboration with the telephone operators, according to a Government release sent to Agerpres on Monday.
"Prime Minister Mihai Tudose today requested the implementation in the shortest while of an integrated citizen alert system in such major risk situations, with an emergency message to be send via mobile phone. "Sistem Alert" will be developed and implemented by ANCOM, IGSU, STS, in cooperation with the telephone operators. (...) "Sistem Alert" will operate through sending specific alert messages to subscribers on their mobile phone, not only via text message (SMS), after the model of the already existing ones and operating in the European states. The alert will be sent depending on the emergency situations at regional level - extreme meteorological phenomena, risks of explosions, other disasters and risk situations," specified the Government.
According to the release, the technical solutions will be established by a working group of representatives of the above-mentioned entities and experts, with its first meeting to take place on Monday 3pm. At the same time with the implementation of the alert system a public information campaign to prepare the population to use this system, will be launched, said the abovementioned source.
