​When emergency services go dark, coordination breaks down. Governments lose visibility at the exact moment they need it most. Recent outages in Australia, where people could not reach emergency services, were not edge cases. They were signals. Neha Idnani, Regional Vice President for APAC at Eutelsat, talked about what those failures reveal. Modern nations are far more dependent on fragile, ground-based connectivity than most policymakers are willing to admit. “All that matters is being connected,” Idnani said. Most national communications infrastructure is optimised for efficiency, not continuity. Fibre, mobile towers, exchanges, all assume physical stability. That assumption no longer holds. ...