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Connectivity, news and social media become crucial lifelines in quake-hit areas

2016-04-16 00:18:52| Telecom - Topix.net

With lessons learned from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, mobile phone carriers and media organizations on Friday rallied to offer crucial communications services to victims of the Kumamoto quake. In a first, three major mobile phone providers - NTT Docomo Inc., KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. - said they had activated emergency public Wi-Fi hot spots in Kumamoto Prefecture.

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