[Chapter-delegates] Japan says "Thanks to the Internet"

[Joly MacFie]

A note from Jun Marai, founder of Japan’s WIDE
project<http://msg.wide.ad.jp/>(Widely Integrated Distributed
Environment)


“When the first earthquake of M9.0 happened at 14:46 JST, I was in Hiyoshi
campus of KEIO University in Yokohama city.



Soon all the electric power in the city went down in Kanagawa area
(therefore, no signal lights in the street). The fixed line phone and mobile
became busy. I found that most of the 3G data connectivity have been working
even though their 3G voice communication was not available (probably because
of the controlled restrictions by the operators).



“Therefore, the means of communication for those people to confirm their
family’s safety, which is what they most wanted, were provided by emails,
twitter and SMS through 3G data communication. Other information of the
earthquake also been accessed by [the] Web.



“I have received many emails afterwards, saying ‘thanks to the Internet’ in
the face of this situation. Some of the Japanese mobile phones are equipped
with terrestrial TV broadcast receiver in a device. This function called
‘one-segment TV’ has been said as ‘unnecessary function’ to make Japanese
mobile market isolated, but this time it worked very nicely to get the TV
news broadcasting with the power failure status.



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