On the night of the 13th, there was a large earthquake with an epicenter off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, and shaking with a seismic intensity of over 6 was observed in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures.

This is the impact of this earthquake on communications.

Among mobile phone companies,


NTT DoCoMo will be affected by the fact that mobile phones will become unavailable or difficult to connect in some areas of Tochigi, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures at 1:00 am due to power outages and equipment failures. It has come out.



The impacts are:


▽ Moka City, Otawara City, Nasukarasuyama City, Nasu Shiobara City, Masuko Town, Nasu Town


▽ Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture


▽ Date City, Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture. Area.



The company is currently in a hurry to recover.



On the other hand,


KDDI, Softbank, and Rakuten Mobile, which deploy au, have not confirmed any damage to equipment such as base stations so far, and have not been affected.



Also, according to NTT East, the fixed-line communication service has not been affected by this earthquake.