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At that point I had only terrible mobile phone coverage. My evaluation showed:

• I could do outgoing calls in terrible quality, but not receive incoming calls
• Text messages could neither be sent nor received
• Internet was completely down

I would love to read the post mortem from the mobile phone companies. That should not have happened within the first hour of the outage and is a big "no no" from my PoV.

As I was already three weeks in Barcelona, I noticed an unusual pedestrian traffic pattern. There were a lot more people on the streets than there were usually at this time of day. All the large stores and restaurants had closed and the patrons were pushed to the streets. People were no longer using their phones in the usual way. Usage in unsual ways was mostly shouting or staring frustrated at it.

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