Following KDDI's communication failure, which took 86 hours to fully recover, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko revealed that he would consider introducing "roaming" that can temporarily use the communication networks of other companies in the event of a communication failure. Did.

KDDI's communication failure, which occurred before dawn on the 2nd of this month and took 86 hours to fully recover, hindered emergency calls such as 119 and had a major impact on social infrastructure such as logistics and bank ATMs. I did.



In response to this, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko recognized at a press conference after the Cabinet meeting on the 12th that "realization of'roaming'is one of the important issues so that the situation where the mobile phone cannot be used for a long time does not occur. In the event of a communication failure, we have announced that we will consider introducing "roaming," which allows us to temporarily use the communication networks of other companies.



In addition, Minister Kaneko said, "In order to realize'roaming', there are issues such as repairing communication equipment and formulating operation rules in an emergency," and then organizing and introducing issues for system design. I showed the idea of ​​aiming for.