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Japanese operator DOCOMO: consequences of the earthquake for its network

Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO has prepared a report which referred to the impact of earthquakes that occurred in the Tohoku region on March 11 this year, his current work on the restoration of communications, including fixed, as well as future plans.

As noted by the operator, currently some of the services Telecom Group, NTT, where he is, remain unavailable in the region. After the earthquake had damaged equipment and industrial power transmission lines at the stations of communication, including 1.5 million different lines for fixed-line, about 6700 base stations and about 15 thousand lines of data for enterprise users.

NTT DOCOMO said that his group NTT, according to local basic law on disaster management, has created a special office to combat natural disasters and deployed more than 10 thousand of its employees to restore the destroyed infrastructure of communication. Through these measures have been deployed about 30 mobile base stations, 870 satellite phones and 2,3 thousand special payphone, providing a link of those affected by the earthquake.

Currently, about 90% of the telecommunications infrastructure operator restored in the future such work will continue, however, in some areas, for an indefinite period, the recovery will be available - such as near a nuclear power plant accident and destroyed tunnels.

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