The gigantic breakdown which deprived the Iberian electricity peninsula during the day of April 28 did not only stop trains, metros or elevators. Many Spaniards and Portuguese have also been deprived of telephone connection and internet network for hours. “It depended on the closest relay antennas: if they did not have a rescue generator, which is often the most modern case, the transmission was cut with the heart of the network from the start of the breakdown”explains Albert Banchs, director of the advanced technological studies research center in Madrid.
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-Between the population cut off from the world which rushed to battery radios to obtain information and that which has been able to continue to communicate more or less normally, people were not affected at all: those with a direct satellite connection, such as that markets Starlink, of the SpaceX group, of the American magnate Elon Musk.
According to Luke Kehoe, Europe industrial analyst at Ookla, American network of network diagnostic, “Speedtest data revealed a record daily use of Starlink in Spain and Portugal during the breakdown, with maintained performance, despite a certain degradation of latency, although certain land stations have been affected and traffic must have been sent via neighboring countries, like Italy, He explained on his social networks. The use of Starlink increased 35 % in Spain and Portugal on April 28 [le jour de la panne de courant] Compared to the average of the previous twenty days, and 60 % on April 29 in Spain ”.
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