EkomROS 2021 - English version

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Photo: Gunstein Myre

A period with few major outages in the electronic communications networks In 2020 and the first half of 2021, there were few incidents involving major outages in

Quick clay landslide at Gjerdrum

electronic communications networks and

The quick clay landslide at Gjerdrum on

services. Throughout the period, only three

30 December 2020 prompted an intense

storms were defined as extreme weather

and complex rescue operation that involved

conditions by the Norwegian Meteorological

the rescue services, private organisations,

Institute, two of which were due to extreme

voluntary organisations and the Norwegian

flood levels. The third was the extreme weather

Armed Forces. Emergency networks were vital

phenomenon, “Frank”, which hit northern Norway in January 2021, causing strong winds. The storm only led to minor, scattered mobile network coverage outages.

for coordination and interaction, and were continuously operational, even though capacity was challenged in some periods. The mobile networks of Telenor, Telia and ICE were also operational throughout the incident and provided important coverage in the affected

Measurements of accessibility and stability

area. The mobile operators continuously reported

in the Norwegian mobile networks, which are

their operational status to Nkom, and also

carried out annually by CRNA1, also show good

assisted the emergency rescue services with

results in 2020. The measurements in 2020

electronic tracking.

were based on 147 measurement points spread

The next generation of emergency and rescue

across Norway and connected to Telenor, Telia

communications services will be implemented

and ICE’s mobile networks. Availability in 2020

in the commercial mobile networks. The

exceeded 99.99 per cent at 60 to 80 per cent

(DSB) led the work on a concept evaluation

of the 147 measurement points, and the data

report, in collaboration with Nkom.

connection performance was stable.

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Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection

“ Norske mobilnett i 2020” (Norwegian mobile networks in 2020), Status report from the Centre for Resilient Networks and Applications, Simula, 2021. EkomROS – 8


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