The #myHealthRecord Is Not Really All That Useful Or Reliable In A Major Emergency For Obvious Reasons!

This appeared last week.Key lessons from bushfire failuresPaul Fletcher May 4, 2020 When devastating bushfires hit Australia over summer, our fixed line and mobile phone networks came under great pressure. At the peak in early January, some 150 mobile base stations across New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia were off the air – and over 20,000 NBN services were down. The failures were very visible. When busy holiday towns on the NSW south coast and eastern Victoria lost mobile service, it made a bad situation worse. Locals and tourists lost contact with friends and family. When EFTPOS terminals (many of which run over mobile networks) went down, people could not buy food or fuel. Many of these problems were fixed quickly – with staff at Australia’s big telcos like NBN Co, Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and TPG, working intensely to get networks restored. But we need to know exactly what happened – and what we can do to respond better in future.In January I convened a round table... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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