Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Today opens emergency network in Norway – NRK

  • 11. September this year was the new radio network fully developed in the country. The aim is that there should be a nationwide digital radio communications for emergency – safety agencies, and is among the government’s initiatives in the civil protection.
  • The decision to initiate the first stage of the new emergency network was made in 2006, and Parliament allocated 900 million. NOK to development.
  • In the Parliament’s decision in 2011 established governance framework for the development of stage 2 (the rest of mainland Norway) to 3.9 billion and the cost framework to 4.7 billion. We assume final cost of the development stages 1 and adopted management / cost limits for development step 2, then implementation of the development of a nationwide Nødnett be realized with a final cost between 5.6 and 6, 4 billion.
  • The main objective is that the digital network will provide fire departments, health agencies, police and PST opportunity to communicate directly with each other in a crisis – or terrorist situation.

  • In 22 . July Commission report states that many of the communication problems we experienced when terror struck Norway, occurred in encounters between different communications solutions.
  • The plan is that the network will have to be developed throughout Norway by 2015.
  • The emergency network is already in use in the central eastern Norway.

(Sources: BBC, DNK, DSB, regjeringen.no. )

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