KDDI network outage hits almost 40m people

This weekend saw Japanese operator KDDI suffer its largest network disruption ever, leaving almost 40 million customers without mobile services. The disruption seemingly began in the early hours of Saturday morning, with disruption continuing to varying degrees until Monday morning.  KDDI blamed “equipment failure” for the outage, saying staff were replacing a router for its core network as part of regular maintenance when an error prevented the connection of voice ca