monline

This week on Monday somebody cut some cables (actually stole a few meters of it) in our district (Kispest) in Budapest, which resulted in loss of phone and internet services in 90% of the district. This happens, when a firm has monopoly in a service. However this case demonstrated perfectly how vulnerable Budapest's communication network is. Of course people could still talk to each other via cellular networks, but a huge number of homes lost their internet access completely. And what about hospitals, police, etc.? I wonder whether their reachability has been undisturbed or not?
Anyway, today in the afternoon our phone and the ADSL connection got restored so I'm able to write this blog entry at home.