Emergency call lines failed

The emergency call lines in Schleswig-Holstein had failed for a few hours.

On Friday night in Schleswig-Holstein, radio communications failed for hours on end. Between 2.30 am and 7.30 am, very important and sensitive data connections, via which the control centers are connected to different radio transmitting stations throughout the state, were functionless. The radio connection to the emergency services was no longer possible for a few hours. As a result, the emergency services had to make do with telephones. It did not come to serious incidents.

Software error was responsible
According to the Telekom was a mistake in the software responsible for this. The network had then failed, as a spokesman for the communications company announced. Throughout the period of the failure, the health of the patients had not been compromised. The control centers would not have been prepared for the failure, but were not people „critically endangered“ been, as Sascha Münster from the control center north from the circle Schleswig Flensburg said. „The professional handling of the situation by the employees of the control centers could prevent this.“ (sb, 26.11.2010)

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