Panicked calls jam phone lines

KOLKATA, Nov. 21: Even though the force was concentrated only in the Park Circus area, a common man's exclusive agency of communication, mobile phones, went totally out of gear wheel throughout the city. However, most mobile service suppliers compared the state of affairs with congestion in the telephone lines as it haps during New Year's Eve. Voicing her understanding to the "temporary congestion" that took topographic point during the period, a Vodafone interpreter said, "It was an exigency state of affairs and people throughout the metropolis were making terror calls. All these telephone calls jammed the phone lines which again caused a impermanent congestion. The state of affairs came back to normality in the evening."
Mrs Pragati Sen, a BSNL endorser complained she could not reach her daughter's school till eventide arsenic no phone calls could be made from her land-line as well as mobile. "On witnessing such as force I tried calling my daughter's school but none of the telephones were working. Whenever I tried to call, the name path was said to be busy. Finally I had to hotfoot to her school only to realise that she had already left school. Both of us went through a agonizing experience today. Had our mobile telephones worked on time, the torment could have got been avoided."
While Mister SK Bhaduri, general director (corporate relations) of BSNL refused to acknowledge that any such as congestion occurred in the lines. Another office-goer, Mister Anand Dasgupta said he was not able to name his business office neither could he contact his home, to inform them he was trapped in a traffic jam. "I had an of import meeting in the business business office but I could not reach my office to inform the functionaries about it. There is no point in cachexia money on mobile telephone connexions if it makes not work when we necessitate it the most." normality SNS