An AT&T NDR Emergency Communications Vehicle. September 2005.

In addition to supporting AT&T's network, the Network Disaster Recovery Team also uses its mobile satellite capabilities to provide communications support for humanitarian relief efforts. This is accomplished by establishing satellite links to the AT&T Network for use by relief organizations and government agencies. The AT&T Emergency Communications Vehicles (ECVs) may also be deployed to provide calling capability for people isolated from their normal communications channels due to widespread disasters and/or evacuations.

In October 2007, an NDR satellite COLT was deployed to southern California to provide emergency communications for displaced residents and for emergency responders after wildfires swept through the region.

An NDR phone bank at Stennis International Airport, Mississippi. September 2005.

Following Hurricane Katrina's landfall in late August 2005, NDR deployed four ECVs and one fly-away satellite unit to locations in Louisiana and Mississippi. The service supported phone banks and command communications for the Louisiana State Police, for National Guard units, for the temporary jail in New Orleans, and for Stennis International Airport.

In September 2003, NDR deployed an ECV to a shelter in Poquoson, Virginia to provide free phone service after the area flooded during Hurricane Isabel. In October 2003, NDR used an ECV to provide communications for a San Diego local assistance center following the wildfires.

In 2001, the team had two relief deployments during the World Trade Center Disaster Response. In June, the team provided free phone service in several shelters following the flooding from Tropical Storm Allison in the Houston, Texas area.

In early 2000, an ECV was sent to Camilla, Georgia to provide emergency communications for tornado victims.

In 1999, a satellite unit was deployed in May, following severe tornadoes in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma area, and in September and October, in response to severe flooding in the Tarboro, North Carolina area, following the passage of Hurricane Floyd.

In 1998, a satellite unit was deployed twice on humanitarian relief missions. The February deployment occurred after severe tornadoes struck in the Orlando-Kissimmee, Florida area. The July deployment was in support of fire crews who were fighting widespread wildfires in central Florida.