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When we think about telecommunications, we often think about speed. Faster downloads, clearer calls, lower latency: first-world issues. Yet some of the most important moments in Japan’s communications history have had nothing to do with speed; they’ve been guided by the question of how to keep people connected when normal infrastructure suddenly stops working. For NTT and its predecessor organizations, disasters have repeatedly served as moments of reassessment. Earthquakes, typhoons, floods, fires, and even wartime destruction have all tested Japan's communications infrastructure.   Our latest article looks at three earthquakes that illustrate how resilience became an increasingly important part of telecommunications design. Each disaster exposed weaknesses in existing systems, while also pushing communications networks to become more dependable, flexible, and resistant to disruption. And it’s a pattern we can see over more than a century. #NTT #History #Telecommunications #Resilience #HistoryofNTTInnovation