Costa Rica: first hour after earthquake, 13 million phone calls registered

The first 60 minutes after the quake of 7.6 degrees this morning, users of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) made ​​13 million calls.

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As reported by the ICE, communications that amount is four times the normal traffic.

This resulted in the saturation system.

Initially, 104 GSM and 202 3G base stations had problems due to the power cut. Most of these devices, which allow communications, are located in the central and northern Pacific. Read Article