The European Union is taking contingency measures to prevent disruptions of Internet service, such as the failures taking place in Asia after a major earthquake hit the coast of Taiwan late last month. Although area service providers have redirected traffic, while undersea cables damaged by the 7.1-magnitude earthquake are repaired, a few days ago Internet users in Asia were still having connection problems. Cable damage has prevented market players from exchanging information in real time, a detrimental situation to the world’s economy.