Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn’t explain Thursday why his administration ignored a warning from the feds a year ago about a bug that disrupted the city’s in-house wireless network last week.
“Sometimes there’s going to be mistakes. It’s a government made up of human beings,” he said of the embarrassing snafu.
“We have to understand what happened here. We’ve got to fix it quickly. I think it will be fixed in the next few days.”
The New York City Wireless Network, known as NYCWiN, crashed on Saturday, hitting the operations of city agencies that rely on it to transmit high-speed voice, video and data communications.
The Y2K-like bug has affected everything from traffic lights to NYPD license plates readers, but the mayor tried to downplay the tech disaster.
“There definitely have been some impacts. Thank God they’re limited,” the mayor said at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn.
He absolved himself of responsibility, saying: “I was not involved in the planning. It was not something that came up to my level.”
The Department of Homeland Security warned a year ago that GPS-enabled devices could be affected by a time counter “rollover event.”
Just last month The Post and other news outlets wrote about the impending bug.