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Resilient Telecommunications

This part of our website is devoted to enhancing the resilience of telecommunications. Here we explain what we mean by resilient communications, how resilience can be enhanced and provide an overview of the Government's strategy for enhancing resilience.

Telecommunications are a fundamental enabler underpinning the effective response to any emergency. Experience during a number of recent emergencies in the UK such as the BT plc tunnel fire in Manchester (April 2004), floods in Boscastle (August 2004) and Carlisle (January 2005), and the bombings in London (July 2005) all showed that communication systems could be disrupted in an emergency and that emergency planning needed to take that into account.

• Resilient communications 
  • What we mean by resilient communications

• Enhancing the resilience of communications 
  • Some guiding principles
  • Enhancing the resilience of cellular mobile telecommunications
  • Enhancing the resilience of terrestrial (fixed line) telecommunications
  • The role of satellite telecommunications 

• The Government's Strategy for enhancing the resilience of responder’s communications provides an overview of this initiative.

• Get involved in enhancing resilience 
• LRF Telecommunications Sub-Groups
• Stakeholder workshops
• Stakeholder Panel

• New to enhancing the resilience of telecommunications? Start here