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.
