Jonathan Wright, a director at telecoms company Interoute, said that the outage could have a devastating affect on business and communication around the world.

电信公司Interroute的经理乔纳森·赖特表示，断裂可能会对全世界的商业与通讯造成巨大破坏。

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Haiti's 7.0 earthquake caused communication and power outage, and local people said that it may cause thousands of deaths, currently no Chinese reports of injuries were reported.

海地7.0级强震造成通讯和电力中断，当地人士称可能造成数千人死亡，目前暂无中国人伤亡报告。

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The outage of substation auxiliary power system has severe impact on the main transformer coolers, protection, communication and automation systems of substation.

变电站所用电系统全停故障将对变电所主变冷却器、保护、通讯、自动化等设备产生严重影响。

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Since normal communication lines with our customers may be lost during an IT infrastructure outage, we utilize social networks like Twitter and Facebook to provide status updates to our customers.

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