If both are related, couldn't it be in the opposite direction? The transformer failure damaging (or powering off) some piece of equipment which then leads to th

If both are related, couldn't it be in the opposite direction? The transformer failure damaging (or powering off) some piece of equipment which then leads to the phone system failure? (I don't known which happened first, but on the reddit video of the transformer explosion says "8 hours ago", while this twitter post is 4 hours ago, so I'm guessing the transformer exploded first.)