Glitch Cripples Mobile Giant KDDI In Western Japan

Japanese mobile phone giant KDDI Corp. on Monday announced that a communications problem was preventing or making it difficult to use its mobile voice and data services in western Japan, Mainichi Shimbun reported.

KDDI said the cause is under investigation. I Photo: Own Work Wikimedia Commons

According to KDDI, the failure occurred at 7:18 a.m. the same day, affecting the company's brands au and UQ Mobile, among others.

Mobile phone connections were reportedly difficult in the Kansai, Hokuriku, Sanin, Sanyo, Shikoku, and Kyushu regions, among other areas.

The cause is under investigation, KDDI said, as it deployed its engineers to track down where the glitch occurred and how it affected much of heavily populated western Japan regions.

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