Court documents reveal 4G contract awarded by Home Office to EE will not cover London tube,large parts of Wales and rural ScotlandMinisters have awarded a £1bn contract for a police and emergency service network that will not cover London Underground or large parts of Wales and rural Scotland, court documents demonstrate.
There is also no provision in the 4G contract – which will be run by EE – for the police and emergency services to salvage precedence over the public on the network in emergencies such as a terrorist attack. The provision of an emergency communications network in the tube was a key recommendation of the official inquiry into the London 7/7 bombings in 2005.
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Source: theguardian.com