Mobile phone base station Strengthen measures for power outages Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications October 19th, 4:33 am
In response to the prolonged situation in a wide area where mobile phones are difficult to connect due to the power outage caused by the typhoon, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications decided to strengthen measures to ensure that mobile phone base stations function for a long time.
Due to the effects of Typhoon No. 15 and No. 19, in the Kanto and Tohoku regions, electricity could not be supplied to mobile phone base stations due to power outages, making it difficult to connect to the phone for a long time.
Mobile phone companies are obliged to install a backup power source such as a generator or battery at the base station, but they do not indicate how long a backup power source should be.
Therefore, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has decided to consider strengthening the standby power supply so that the base station can function for a long time even if a power failure occurs.
Specifically, in the future, I would like to show the standards of standby power sources required for mobile companies after verifying the status of base stations during Typhoon No. 15 and No. 19.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, since the Great East Japan Earthquake, mobile phone companies have increased the number of standby power supplies that function as base stations for 24 hours. Of these 740,000 base stations nationwide, these base stations account for approximately 5800 or 1%. Is less than