BT was fined £17.5m in July 2024 for a "catastrophic failure" of its emergency call handling service which led to thousands ...

The UK’s telecoms regulator has launched investigations into BT and Three after network failures this summer left customers ...

Emergency Services Day, also known as 999 Day, is an annual celebration of NHS and emergency service workers. Celebrated annually on September 9, 999 Day is also an opportunity for charities to ...

The UK's communications watchdog, Ofcom, has initiated investigations into telecommunications providers BT and Three ...

The government has announced measures to beef up the resilience of the UK’s 999 emergency call handling system. This comes nine months after communications regulator Ofcom launched an investigation ...

"Emergency services are not delivered from an office environment sat behind a desk. They're delivered on the street and not just the high street - they're delivered from remote areas, in extreme ...

British Telecommunications (BT) is now the subject of an inquiry after a Sunday grave interruption to the United Kingdom's 999 call systems. Due to a technological glitch, 999 calls were not ...

Crime does pay - 10p per call... The government has today taken the wraps off a 'single non-emergency number' (SNEN) for concerned citizens to report petty crime or nuisance behaviour. The 101 number ...

Emergency services are experiencing a rise in 999 calls as a heatwave sweeps Britain, according to the Health Secretary. Following a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, Steve Barclay suggested ...

Police forces in the UK are seeing a “record number” of false calls to 999, the UK’s emergency services number, and the culprit is apparently Android. As the BBC reports, Android 12 added an ...

A Sutton man who repeatedly wasted the emergency services' time with nuisance phone calls also flouted a court order which ...

Supt Liam Johnson, from Guernsey Police, said he and his colleagues "face some of the most challenging incidents within the community" Guernsey's emergency services gathered for a ceremony to honour ...