So, there’s a lot of work in my ministry on this communication resilience, working with not just microwave stations, but also low-Earth orbit, like OneWeb; mid-Earth, like SES, ensuring that our three major telecoms, if only one is left in a region, then there’s a seamless mobile disaster roaming. So, as to ensure that information still flows and context can still be transmitted. And that speaks also partly to why the 111 was designed as an SMS, which is a very low bandwidth way to keep people informed, even if the telecoms are physically damaged or taken down and so on. So, there’s this whole branch of communication resilience that we’re also focusing on.

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