[GummyIII]

I find it interesting that cell phones around you wouldn't work for a specific time.

[topher]

I find it interesting that cell phones around you wouldn't work for a specific time.

It was because of the large secondary explosion... Shook some chips loose from the local cell station...

[ArmstedFragg]

I find it interesting that cell phones around you wouldn't work for a specific time.

It could have just been a local max-out. One site, probably thirty simultaneous conversations would have done it.

[1066AD]

I read that after the Bali bombs this weekend that they shut down the cel phone network ASAP and, finding unexploded bombs, credit this with preventing more carnage there. So maybe that's SOP everywhere nowadays in situations like this. Makes sense.

[Palladin]

Is there a way for the authorities to jam all cellphones in a distinct area, so as to prevent the detonation of more bombs by cellphone?

[hispanarepublicana]

I find it interesting that cell phones around you wouldn't work for a specific time.

If the shutting down of cell phone signals deliberately is even possible, then it would be smart to do this in order to keep terrorists from communicating with one another in order to do coordinated attacks.

I find it interesting that I was hundreds of miles to the south at a Big 12 football game and was unable to use my phone (svc unavailable) from about 7:30 p.m. to about 8 p.m.

[oceanview]

but how soon after the explosion did the cell phones "godown". it sounds like congestion to me, people heard the noise and started calling out. for authorities to figure out what had happened, and call the telcos to turn their towers off - would have taken some time. unless the stadium/campus has a micro-cell that they could switch off quickly on their own.

[PhiKapMom]

My son and daughter are always text messaging people from the game and it wouldn't go through until sometime in the 4th quarter. They kept getting all circuits are busy.