In plain English
It refers to the place or region where service is being impacted. The impact can be a complete outage or a partial disruption that reduces telecommunications service.
In context
Here, it identifies the geographic locations included in the outage notice because they are experiencing the reported loss or reduction of service.
- Situation
- Responding to outages, degraded service, diagnostics, support tickets, and restoration updates
- What it communicates
- labels the locations included in the outage notice.
Meaning limits
By itself, the term does not indicate the cause, duration, or exact severity beyond showing that service in that geographic area is lost or reduced.
Examples
“The affected area was limited to the coastal district, where phone and internet service dropped intermittently.”
“According to the outage notice, the affected area includes the eastern suburbs and the airport precinct.”