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Resilient Telecommunications

The Government's Strategy for enhancing the resilience of responder's telecommunications

The Strategy for enhancing the resilience of emergency responders' telecommunications [PDF, 8 pages, 432KB] is available for download.

The strategy comprises four broad strands:

• Strand 1. Working with providers and responders to enhance the resilience of every-day commercially available telecommunications

• Strand 2. Improving the management, take-up and resilience of privileged telecommunications schemes that are only accessible to emergency responders

• Strand 3. Delivering a high integrity telecommunications system providing connectivity and services between key responder sites at the national, regional and local level and

• Strand 4. Delivering a means for securely sharing information between all local regional and national responders both in preparing for and in response to an emergency