Israel – Cellcom (CEL.TA), Israel’s largest mobile phone operator, said on Wednesday it was having problems with its network that was preventing many of its customers from making or receiving calls.
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“We are working to restore normal service in the shortest time possible,” Cellcom said in a statement without elaborating.
Cellcom (CEL.N) had 3.376 million customers at the end of September.
A telecoms source said the problem is “in the heart of the network” — central Israel where 80 percent of the population lives — but that customers across the country are being affected. The source added that SMS text messaging was not impacted but there were delays in receiving the messages due to heavy traffic.
It was not known when full service will be restored, the source said.
When people went to Israel in the 60’s for an extended period, there were no cell phones, a regular phone call was prohibitively expensive, and air mail letters and aerograms were how people stayed in touch with people back home.
Today, the young people who study there are spoiled, live in high style on daddy’s credit card, and to top it off are then brainwashed into believing that their parents didn’t raise them religious enough by the Rabbis who we entrust them to.
The point of number one is that I who is a current Cellcom user and out of service shouldn’t freak out and relax and remember that people once lived without cell phones
I believe the point that number one is making is that people survived before the advent of the cell phones. To the GB Jew: sounds like you have a large chip on your shoulder, and to you I say “Tally Ho!”
The world would be a better place without cellphones (Sent from my iPhone).
I agree with Boris (#5). Mr. GB Jew, your facts are wrong. The first cell phones were actually proposed by Bell Labs in the USA, in December, 1947. They may not have been mass produced until the 1980’s and 1990’s, but their invention was on the drawing board, decades earlier.