How to Prepare your Transport Network for the Next Big Disaster
- April 2, 2019
- Disaster preparedness, Disaster recovery, FCC, Hurricanes, Wildfires
By Randy Jenkins, Director, Business Development
Commercial mobile networks in the US are morphing into critical infrastructure as homeowners abandon their landline phones and rely instead on their mobile phones. Critical alerts, evacuation information, and family reconnections are relying on mobile networks in times of disasters. Unfortunately, those are exactly the times that the mobile network infrastructure is most severely tested and in recent past has shown it cannot stand up to the rigors of these disasters. The US Federal Government (FCC) and state/regional entities are looking at ways to limit the impacts of these disasters.