Methods and systems for enabling end-user equipment at an end-user premise to effect communications when an ability of the end-user equipment to communicate via a communication link connecting the end-user equipment to a communications network is disrupted

A communication apparatus at a first location comprising:

• a wired interface for providing a first communication link connecting the communication apparatus to a communications network;
• a first wireless interface for connecting the communication apparatus to at least one user device of first end-user equipment at the first location;
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• a second wireless interface for connecting the communication apparatus to a second communication apparatus at a second location;
• a processing entity configured to determine that an ability to communicate via the first communication link is disrupted;
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• a routing entity configured to:
• in response to determining that the ability to communicate via the first communication link is disrupted, cause the communication apparatus device at the first location and second communication apparatus at the second location to wirelessly exchange certain information to establish a wireless communication link using the second wireless interface;
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• cause information of a communication session to be exchanged between the at least one user device of first end-user equipment and the communications network via the wireless communication link established between the communication apparatus at the first location and the second communication apparatus at the second location,
• wherein the second communication apparatus has second communication link connecting the second communication apparatus to the communications network.