Impact of typhoon Mobile phone and landline status (as of 3:00 pm) September 11, 17:03

According to mobile phone companies, power outages continued in various places due to the impact of Typhoon No.15, making it difficult to connect and communicate with mobile phones and smartphones in some areas of the Kanto region and Shizuoka Prefecture. Each company responds by deploying mobile base stations and mobile power supply vehicles.

In mobile companies, there are places where base stations that exchange radio waves with devices such as smartphones are not functioning due to the power outage, and it is difficult to make calls and communications.

Of these, NTT DoCoMo has difficulty in connecting mobile phones in some of the following regions.

▽ Tokyo is Oshima Town, Niijima Village.
▽ Kanagawa Prefecture has 5 cities and towns including Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Yokosuka and Kamakura.
▽ Chiba Prefecture has 43 cities and towns, including Inage-ku, Chiba City, Funabashi City, and Tateyama City.
▽ Shizuoka Prefecture is Higashiizu Town.

KDDI has difficulty in connecting mobile phones in some of the following regions.

▽ Oshima-cho, Tokyo.
▽ Chiba Prefecture has 37 cities and towns, including Inage Ward, Midori Ward and Wakaba Ward in Chiba City.
▽ Ibaraki Prefecture is Iwata City and Kashima City.
▽ Shizuoka Prefecture is Shimoda City, Ito City and Kawazu Town.

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▽ Niijima Village in Tokyo.
▽ Izu City, Higashi Izu Town, Kawazu Town in Shizuoka Prefecture.
▽ A part of 26 cities and towns, including Wakaba-ku, Chiba City, Tateyama City, Minamiboso City, Chiba Prefecture.

Each company publishes a list of regions that are difficult to connect on their homepage.
In addition, mobile base stations and mobile power supply vehicles are deployed.

In addition, three major mobile phone companies provide a “Disaster Message Board” service that allows users to register and confirm safety information in text form via the Internet.

On the other hand, according to NTT East, the emergency power supply for communication facilities has stopped, so the phone has become unable to reach approximately 102,000 lines in a wide area in Chiba Prefecture, and the Internet is not connected to 70,000 lines. The

In NTT East, approximately 7,000 public telephones in Chiba Prefecture are available for free use.