The nearest airport is damaged, roads to the provincial capital are buckled and telecom authorities say 35 of 82 transmission stations are out of action.
Or ask Egyptian telecom authorities, who attempted to avert "chaos" by resorting to the blunt instrument of severed wires; an entire country was disconnected, at least temporarily, from the global network.
He proposed the idea in the 1980s while working at Finland's telecoms authority.
In June, the telecoms authority blocked Viber, a free mobile phone application, and threatened others that failed to comply with regulations.
Poland's central bank cannot get the communications, equipment necessary for rapid cheque-clearing, nor its telecoms authority the switching equipment needed to upgrade the notorious Polish telephone system.
Supported by China's state-run news agency, Xinhua, and the central telecoms authority, China Internet Corporation (CIC), it has developed what it calls the China Wide Web.For the network, computers and software, it has relied on western firms like Netscape, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
In the past week, in a further sign of crackdown on dissenters, Turkey's telecoms authority blocked access to Twitter and on Thursday announced that it was taking similar action against YouTube.
But then there were few computers and telephone lines in China, and, as the central telecoms authority controlled virtually all access to international gateways, it was easy to block the path to unfriendly foreign websites and to monitor any on-line shenanigans within China.Now it is much harder, after rapid growth in both Chinese telecoms and information services.
Last year, Facebook tried to launch Free Basics, which would have allowed people in rural India free access to websites chosen by the company, but the plan was blocked after millions wrote to the telecoms authority saying the scheme would give Facebook too much power.
