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by apexalpha 2552 days ago
But the last two are not KPNs fault. They don't handle the NL alert at all, that's the government.

Also: there was literally no reason at all to stay inside. Sounding the national airhorn alarm because 112 is unreachable is a horrible decision.
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jacquesm 2552 days ago
> But the last two are not KPNs fault.

Agreed, but 112 not being reachable definitely is. KPN made a big stink about it at the time how other 'crappy' providers could not be trusted to deliver a thing of such national importance and so they got to do it exclusively rather than to have multiple redundant systems by different providers. I'm sure there will be some second guessing of that decision now.

Agreed that sounding the national alarm over this would be an overreaction, as is the fact that they used the national alert, lots of people are going to disable it as a result of this and that will make the system that much less valuable.

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apexalpha 2551 days ago
Glad you agree now. Your comments yesterday make it seem you were quite stressed out from all of it.
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jacquesm 2551 days ago
No, I just think that if the national alert system is activated that it should work as advertised, deliver each alert once and that everybody should receive it.

As it was some people got no alerts, others got nine and the information dispensed through it was faulty. That's pretty fucked up.

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