KPN, T-Mobile and Vodafone have agreed to large-scale and long-term fault on one of the networks affected customers to make use of a different mobile network. According to the telco’s, the Netherlands is the first country in the world where such appointments are made.
As a general rule, that the failure at one of the three mobile carriers is expected to be a minimum of three days and there should be a minimum of 500,000 customers will be affected. In that case, customers of the provider thanks to a regional roaming mechanism leading to the mobile networks of the two other providers. This applies to sms and voice traffic; internet traffic and machine-to-machine applications are not covered under the scheme.
The three providers have the agreements in a scenario that is out of the closet when one of them is hit by a lengthy fault. The necessary technical and legal adjustments would be implemented. Last year, the main features already announced for the storingsovereenkomst, but these are now final with the capturing of the events in a scenario.
According to Nederland ICT, the Netherlands has a world-first with the emergency law. From the government an urgent request to the three providers to cooperate laid down after, in 2012, Vodafone had a substantial and long-term disturbance by a fire in a phone number.